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It delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of ~~pirating~~ testing the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.
Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it's less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows.
Reminder: Win 10 introduced
Reminder that they backported the Windows 10 telemetry to Windows 7 as well.
Yup. That's what made me ditch Win 7 long before EOL and switch to Linux. Been here for ten years now. Life's good. 🌱
The last good Windows was Windows 98
For people with a BSOD fetish? Definitely!
Don't yuck my yum
I'm not. It's just... why can't you play with penguins like the other boys?
turns out it was a gateway drug to another kind of blue screen, btw:
Thank GNU! You doin daddy proud, son!
What you're referring to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
He's even learnt the Gospel of Saint Richard by heart!
I'm a man of culture as well
Exactly. It just delays the inevitable (maybe even sooner if something denies to run on "this old unsupported version"). As an old win-lover I never thought I'd say this:
Better switch to Linux, most of everything windows still works, everything else is just better and faster.