Vipersan wrote: 04 Mar 2026 18:02
Seriously though I still use windows 7 as my main PC..and regularly clone the OS hard drive.
I am still on win7. I run a filtered IP, run ad blockers of various kinda, got a good antivirus etc. My girlfriend is on win7. Shes always downloading crap off the internet. So I am waiting to see how long win7 will really take before it gets hacked. In theory my girlfriends PC would get hacked first. But theres nothing important on it anyway. So nobody cares. When that day happens, it will give me a heads up as to how it was done. Worst-case, I unplug it from the net. I already have MX linux installed ready for such a event.
I stopped upgrading a long time ago as I hated windows 10 with a passion.
I said the same, my girlfriends mum had it for years. We seem to have just went back to totally blank white squares with text on which makes it visually worse than Windows 3.11 and runs slower! She had actually three antivirus programs running which really does not help, and she has had that much malware and ransomware on her PC.. So much for having all the latest security features in Windows which did absolutely nothing !
Plus I still use my floppy drive, if I remember rightly they even remove functionality for that in windows 10 ? It was a bit of a pain getting it to work with my more recent Ryzen motherboard. Ended up hacking in a USB floppy drive as they don't put floppy headers on them anymore :(
This is imo a step to far..they whoever they are want to control every aspect of your life..
yeah most people seem to say its basically spyware at this point. It's pretty much a daily video on stuff which is broken and with enforcing bloatware down everyone's throats..
You basically rent the operating system these days...you dont own it...and with the advent of TPM chips you dont really own the hardware either.
There was a interesting discussion on Linus tech tips the other day.. Basically they are saying with a power of AI systems, it is a possibility that desktop hardware will not be powerful enough to run the latest games in the future. It could become a point where you basically login to some gaming AI system and they basically just stream the frames to you.. For a price of course... You don't own the game and you don't own the hardware.. Certainly sad times to how things used to be....
Going back some years now, while graphics improve , which is great of course, some car games are realistic to the point where it just looks like me driving to work now.. I just don't see it as any fun anymore. Is it was more of a virtual "fantasy" type world and its more appealing to me.
I haven't been able to play games for some years now because of my RSI :( the only game I really go back to is UT2004. Its direct IP, no servers involved. It just works and I own it ! All the games I have really liked, the server goes off-line and the company simply doesn't care, then the game is gone forever :cry: a lot of games you cannot do direct IP anymore anyway. Thats a dealbreaker right out of the gate for me.
