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Windows 10 free upgrade deadline is fast approaching. What's the verdict?

Upgrade or stay at Windows 7?
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>>54110261
>>>/g/sqt/
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>>54110261
Upgrade to gentoo
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>>54110261
>windows
Are you living under a stone?
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7 is vastly superior but performance for muh gaymes is slightly lower than 10, but you probably wouldnt notice much of a difference maybe a few frames
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>>54110261
You need to upgrade. 7 is almost 7 years old and it isn't getting any more service packs. It won't get DX12 either.
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>>54110380
"service packs"
More like botnet upgrade packs amirite senpai
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40% Non-troll responses within 5 posts, I'll take that.

thanks, /g/
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>>54110261
>Windows 10 free upgrade deadline is fast approaching.
Thank God. You should just purge Windows altogether. Play emulated games until Vulkan takes over.
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>>54110261
You couldn't PAY me to "upgrade" to the shitstorm that is Windows 10. Its a definitive DOWNGRADE.
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Stay on 7.
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>>54110261
>implying they're gonna stop giving it for "free"
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>>54110261
Both you fucking idiot.
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>>54110478
I'm actually really scared that this is going to happen. August 1st they're going to go "SURPRIIIIISE!" And the gwx.exe will stay active indefinitely.
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Personally I'll be sticking with Windows 8 for as long as I can until switching over to Linux. Tired of Microsoft's bullshit.
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>>54110518
>windows 10 free update expires
>windows 10 uptake starts to slow down severely
>SUDDENLY WINDOWS 10 FREE FOREVER
>FREE UPGRADES FOR VISTA AND XP TOO
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>>54110261
does this mean after the deadline passes, no more forced upgrades? or will they simply block all new activations of non 10 versions of windows?
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I like it a lot.

>Backup
>Upgrade to 10
>Download install ISO
>Wipe drive
>Clean install
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>Windows 7
disgusting
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>>54110543
It will turn into a shitty "discount" - 50% off Windows 10.
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>>54110431
pedo
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>>54110531
>>54110531
This too for me, except with win7 x64

When the extended support for win7 actually ends and someone has made a linux distribution at that point which actually mimicks most if not all of windows 7's features (including the incredibly fast and convenient explorer search + file sorting functionalities) and which is able to run all the games and programs which win 7 could run too out of the box then i will consider switching over. Otherwise i would hop onto windows 8/8.1 and just use that until that ones support ends too in 2023. Afterwards i don't know which OS i will be using. But i somehow doubt the linux devs will be incompetent enough to not shape it into a win 7 competitor at that point
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>>54110261
Windows 10 is shit and all reviews are paid

I can't believe this fucking shit I'm seeing right now. Stellar reviews all over the place for something that is LITERALLY, and by that I mean LITERALLY, LITERALLY the same shit as 8.1 except with a shitty meme start menu, different but still shitty phone tier unusable meme apps, and shitty meme assistant Cortana that mines your useless normie data. Oh, and a fucking ripoff of Expose from 5 year's ago Mac OS but with worse animations.

That wouldn't be all that bad but it is missing many features from Windows 8, most important one being COLORFUL TITLE BARS. Now everything is so white it will burn your retinas off, this is fucking ridiculous, you could always change that color in Vista, 7 and 8 but now you can't anymore because fuck you. You can't even change icon spacing for the desktop or pin shit to the left side of the start menu, if you disable recent apps it just shows empty space... WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NEED THAT WHEN YOU CAN PIN TILES TO THE RIGHT HOLY SHIT EVERYONE IS GOING TO PIN HIS FAVOURITE APPS THERE GOD FUCKING DAMN IT I'M SO FUCKING TRIGGERED RIGHT NOW. And finally it's still full of fucking duplicated apps/programs like the new shitty settings, inconsistent icons, rough animations, shit's that early as fuck (Edge, are you kidding me with this shit? Literally IE but slightly faster in some shill benchmark and MS Paint built in because that's what everyone wants right? Being able to scribble shit on web pages, what's the fucking point?).

TL;DR I am surrounded by shills how do I stop this?

By the way I'm seriously considering switching to Linux or Mac, this shit is the last straw I'm so fucking done with this shit tier pleb os.
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Thinking about upgrading to windows 10. Is it worth it? I dont have a windows 7 or 8 key
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>>54110630
IN
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I can understand needing windows for muh games but how are there people that don't play games and still use Windows?

Utterly astounding
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>>54110638
It's worth it. Do it before July 30th.
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>>54110688
Windows comes with their hardware.
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>>54110261
wait, does this mean they'll stop trying to force me to 'upgrade' my w7 machine?
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>>54110716
If you haven't figured out how to disable that by now, you should just bite the bullet and let it upgrade.
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>>54110700
this
98% of people on earth would never even consider installing an OS themselves

the rest are already using linux
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Upgrade.
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>>54110726
I only use it once every couple of weeks, and every time it comes up with some new dialogue with the close button hidden in a different place
I can't really be fucked investing any time into it
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>>54110751
GWX Control Panel. Takes 10 seconds.
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>>54110662
INDIA'S STREETS
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>>54110261
lol i wonder if the notification will stop popping up

[spoiler]dont bet on it[/spoiler]
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Is there even a point to stay in win7 when you're on skylake?
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>>54110261
stay on windows 7 (or install Linux), unless you *need* DirectX 12.
stay clear of botnet OP
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>>54110261
who cares
win10 is pure garbage
its even worse than vista
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>>54110992
Well yeah, vista was god tier.
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>>54110261
Upgrade, check if you have all drivers working, run Spybot Anti-Beacon, enjoy.
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i'd rather not have a keylogger on the machine i do my banking on.
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Ask yourself why you would even want spyOS. Are you just 4 or 5 fps away from 60 for the latest games and give 0 fucks about your privacy, usability, or aesthetics? Then switch
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>>54111096
Protip: Microsoft backported the botnet to all versions of Windows.
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>>54110992
>who cares
>win10 is pure garbage
>its even worse than vista

I actually can confirm this... Tried win 10 on 8 different machines and none of them work propperly after that shit. Solution after weeks of fixing shit was to go back to win 7/8.1 and install Linux on few of the machines where windows was not really a "must have".

One machine even "bluescreened" every 5 minutes on win 10 after using usb devices that had anything to do with sound.
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>>54111122
Who was >>54111111 ?
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>>54110261
Pirate. They turned the OS from a product to making the consumer into product.

So just pirate enterprise edition.
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>>54111122
is that why they want me to upgrade so badly?
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>>54111133
yeah i had 10 installed on my second laptop
got a corrupted registry just after 1 week of use
this put it on a reboot loop
had to format the entire disk because nothing would work
yes i tried safe boot and the console
win10 is just awful
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I wont, because I have a loader for 7 installed and I'm not convinced that 10 wont fuck that up.
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>>54110638
It's not worth it. Just use 8.1 and that classic shell thing.
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>>54110261
If i need windows for something i still have my 7 partition...i may be stupid but i am not that fucking dumb that i installed straight up malware as my OS.
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>>54111404
On my other laptop win 10 started corrupting the hybrid sshd and became slower than old dos machine. I tried to install new drivers and fix it in various ways but nothing worked. Found out later on that this problem was created by a random win 10 update. I also heard that it happenes to other people too with similar hardware. Reverted back to 8.1 and that fixed everything.
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>>54110261
Upgrade to 10. It's actually really nice and I've noticed very few issues. For some reason my good laptop takes about 10-15 seconds to open cmd. I rarely use the command prompt, so I don't care. Another glitch (which only happens once or twice a month) is that when I leave the laptop on the charger for about 6 hours and I close it, this sleep bug makes the screen all black. It's still on, just nothing is there. The "slide/pull to power down" thingy shows up and does nothing. Simply holding power and manually restarting the computer fixes it for a couple weeks at a time. I also hate the faggy start menu which can easily be replaced with classic shell. Just google it. It's totally free and brings back the windows 7 start with the search all programs thing I loved.
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I've decided fuck it, gonna update.

I've been on the same install of Windows 7 for five years now. It's getting gross. And if I'm going to do a fresh install I might as well make the upgrade and get in on the DX12.
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>>54111932
Have fun. Make a backup and don't use onedrive.
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8.1 of course.

It's literally the best of both worlds.
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Get the license first, then use 7 until microcuck doesn't support it anymore.
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>>54110261

Stay on Win 7
Better UI
Better Performance
Less Botnet
It just works
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8.1
it just works
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>>54110261
B O T N E T - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >
O Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
N
E Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
T https://archive.is/OBGB1
|
| Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
| https://archive.is/tW6fu
|
| Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
| https://archive.is/2XIvX Ā· https://archive.is/qLRZx
|
| Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
| location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
| even after related settings are turned off:
| https://archive.is/Zny36 Ā· https://archive.is/sz1nt
| https://archive.is/g3QdQ Ā· https://archive.is/ko469
|
| A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10:
|
| Keypoints: Windows 10 has a keylogger and uploads all your
| keystrokes every 5 minutes. Everything you type in Edge or
| Cortana is sent to Microsoft, along with any media files it
| finds. When webcam is enabled, 35MB of data goes to Microsoft.
| Even with Cortana disabled/uninstalled, Windows 10 sends all
| microphone audio to Microsoft, when the computer is idle.
| https://archive.is/QnTTA
| https://archive.is/eZKc9
|
| Windows 10 sends desktop screenshots straight to Microsoft:
| https://d2.maxfile.ro/rwspylwbwo.webm
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeHqiydk4A
|
| Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
| https://archive.is/vhjwm
| https://archive.is/2jehd
|
| Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
| https://archive.is/MB0Yy
|
| > Over 82 billion photos viewed.
| > Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
| > 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
| > Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
| > Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
|
v
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>>54110716
they will either
- extend the free offer indefinately
- bug you to upgrade for the low, low price of $whatever
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>>54110261
+1 stay 7
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>>54110311
>I don't know what I'm talking about but I'll say it anyway.
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10 is fucking great.
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>all these GNU shills trying to slander Microsoft's good name

Keep on shitposting, maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop
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>>54110261
Upgrade. Botnet is freetard meme.
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>>54114132
great lump of smelly dogshit
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>>54114162
>>54114182
Rajesh, pls go
and stay go
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>>54114191
That's Linux actually
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>>54114203
This should tell you it's meme since all freetards amount to do damage control is le epic Indian meme
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Update.

Pirate 7 Updates work too so if you don't have pro you can install + daz load windows 7 (let it activate but dont bother doing updates) then save genuineticket.xml and paste it in place on windows 10 pro install (et disk creation tool from ms site) on the same machine and it will auth itself with the servers based on HW ids.
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>>54114132
I agree
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>>54114206
Nope, that's windows 10, if you can read properly

>>54114216
You always say that, rajesh
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>>54113416
>still reposting this fake shit
(You)
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>>54114226
>he uses shitnux
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>54114226
Enjoy no games lincucks faggot
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I very much doubt this is the end of it. They haven't got as many people as they hoped they would even with their desperate attempts, like force installing Windows 10.
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>>54110261
>implying Windows 10 isn't free for everyone

Keked, my boy.
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>>54114236
>>54114249
Hold on, I got a meme for this
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>>54114258
Nope. You fuck off. This is technology board luddite.
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>>54114249
>>54114266
Ass blusted smelly bottle-pissing /v/irgin detected. Go take a shower, lifeless unbreedable pathetic manbabby.
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>>54114258
>waaah I have no games so I will shipost
Nice damage control dude
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>>54114278
see >>54114277
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>>54114277
>this coming from lincuck
Sweet irony
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>>54114277
>being this mad

stop foaming at the mouth kiddo and go pick up your disability cheque so your mom can afford to buy your cheetos and diapers
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>>54114291
What you need is a sweet smell of fucking boad soap
>>54114294
Ran out of dorritos? go ask mommy fucknut
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>>54114277
Don't you have some anime desktop to rice NEET?
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>>54114300
Oops, looks like you shit your diaper kiddo. Go call mommy now, use your buzzer.
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>>54114303
Don't you have some latest vidya to cry to mommy, buttravaged mouthbreather?
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>>54110380
kek its like bee old is not a reason to upgrade lol
is like u said u must change your mech keyboard for a rubber one couse rubber tech is newer
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>>54114316
ohoho so edgy, was that a 10% refill pack of your mountain dew ? I could make at least 5 quickscope with that edgy opponent killing skills
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>>54114319
>projecting this hard
Unlike you I have a job you basement dweller lol
Now go post your shitty desktop into your containment thread
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>>54114338
tl;dr

get a job kiddo
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>>54114341
>le projecting le hard xDD
Just crawl back to daycare board >>>/v/ where you came from fucktard.
10 GBPs to you for posting outside /v/

>>54114342
Hit a nerve? Cry more, maybe complain to mommy
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>>54114363
get a job fatty
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>>54114363
I don't even go to /v/
Try harder neckbeard
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>>54114371
That's exactly where you belong, manchild
>>54114367
Get a shower, basement dweller
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>>54114371
His job is shilling shitty freetard cuckware for freeā„¢
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>>54114387
Started sucking others flacid cocklet all ready? What a surprise
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>>54114382
How does it feel knowing the only ass you'll ever get is when your fingers slip through the toilet paper? (Not actually interested in the answer.)
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>>54114382
>>>/r/linuxmasterrace
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>>54110716
> they'll stop trying to force me to 'upgrade' my w7 machine?
Of course. They'll upgrade it without your permission.
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>>54114403
Not a problem. Windows 10 is great!
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>>54114401
Far better than your STD ridden ass I just came on
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>>54114387
top kek
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>>54114413
Why do you let your boyfriend stick his shit covered cock down your throat after fucking you in the ass?
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>>54110537
Oh fuck, thatd be awful
>>54110518
Gwx will probably just change from "UPGRADE FREE NOW" to "UPGRADE $300 NOW"
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>>54114426
That'd be better but I got herpes from your ass reeking of spicy curry
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Daily reminder that /g/ is Windows board and always was.
Linux is for edgy teens and jobless manchildren.
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>>54114442
>Not even trying anymore
topkek dumb winkid, how was reddit?
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>>54114439
thanks for the laugh bro

I don't even know what this thread is about, I just randomly clicked on it from the catalog and started shitposting
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>>54114448
>proving my point
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>>54114457
>you even had a point
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>>54113416
>being this assblasted his meme OS has no games that he resorts to FUD
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>>54114479
>Games
WINE
>AAA games
>>>/v/
>FUD
Nice damage control
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>>54113416
The only question i have been asking myself for years is why do they need all the information about someone in the end they're not even gonna use it at all.
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>>54114529
to sell it to someone who does want to use it.
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>>54110271
I switched to Gentoo, but keep preinstalled Windows 8 that came with my laptop as a backup OS.
Is there any point in updating it? I fear it will just break half the programs, erase my bootloader (which is easily fixable, though), and I won't use it in the end anyway, but I'm not sure if not updating now will backfire on me later when I will need to run something that doesn't work with Wine and only works on 10.
Or maybe I should just scrap the partition, and make a W10 virtual machine from a pirated LSTB Enterprise. Or maybe a Windows XP one.
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>>54114490
>WINE
enjoy your old trash
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>>54114435
Fuck if they doo that I'll go full autist and install mate on all mashines. I don't even play games that much anymore.
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Are you going to stay with Windows 7 forever? No? Then fucking upgrade already. Atleast do it then revert so you don't lose your chance to activate.

To me not upgrading to Windows 10 is like refusing to upgrade an old Linux kernel... The only good reason not to upgrade is if your hardware doesn't support it, and that is it
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>>54110261
Shit is free, doesn't mean you eat it.
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>>54110261
>Windows 10 free upgrade deadline is fast approaching
Does that mean they'll finally fuck off with the GWX.exe shit?
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I upgraded to 10 from Win7 last week after realising that the OS was so outdated that shit was already falling off the support cycle.

EntityFramework 7 wouldn't build on it, my Bluetooth 4.0 dongle wouldn't work on it, TRIM barely supported on my SSD. All worked fine after moving to Win10. Windows 7 is no longer a modern OS.
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>>54110261

That's not an "eirther/or" question.

You get your Win7 all in order, do a complete IMG backup, then take the upgrade plunge, get your registration for legal free copy, even do a clean install.

If you don't like Win10 right now, restore your Win7 IMG. You can always use your Win10 license to legally install it clean again for the next 8 or 10 years.
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>>54116167
Is it necessary to download and install win10 if i wanna get it in stash for free? (or sell that to some idiot)
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>>54115415
I've updated many times without ever breaking anything. Also make sure you're using the ~amd64 version of wine to get the most mileage out of it.
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>>54116342
Wait, there is actually an advantage to using 64-bit prefix?
I read through the "don't show us the bugs if you're using 64-bit prefix" things, and made my default prefix a 32-bit.
Is there actually an advantage to using 64-bit besides loading 64-bit programs?
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>>54116275

Yes. You have to have an eligible install of a previous Windows, then take the upgrade.

Depending on your hardware, the upgrade may or may not work. If it works, you have an unstable Win10 installed over whatever was there before ... so best to do a fresh install and completely wipe the drive.

Microsoft now has your system (basically, the mobo) permanently registered with that Win10 license and it can be reinstalled at will whenever you wish

You cannot resell the license because it's tied to that specific system. You can sell the motherboard and whoever buys it should be able to install Win10.

pro-tip:

but a blank HDD in your system
install any pirate version of Win7 pro (or 8/8.1)
take the Win10 upgrade

that system is now permanently registered for Win10 Pro

Install anything you want on it after that, you can always pop in a wiped HDD/SSD and reinstall Win10

How do you do all that?

Use google. There are dozens of websites that describe all that in detail. I'm not retyping it on /g/.
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>>54110261
Keep 7, better performance, better UI..

>>54110311
>performance for muh gaymes is slightly lower than 10
lolno
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>>54116377
I meant just accept the unstable version for your architecture.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
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>>54116526
Oh, Yeah, already doing that.
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>>54116342
Wait, were you speaking about Gentoo with the "never broke anything" thing?
Cause I was speaking about updating backup Windows.
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>>54116473
Jesus...That shit is insane.
I remember when i was younger we used to use OEM keys from different machines and call MS that we had to change this and that coz it broke and got those keys working in our own machines.
Now i have win7 ultimate (no OEM) do they tie that shit to hardware as well?
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>>54116473
>install any pirate version of Win7 pro (or 8/8.1)
I thought it worked only for W7!
I'm on 8.1 using Microsoft Toolkit, will it works upgrading to 10?
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>>54110261

You can always upgrade get a code and then reverse it anon so the code will be there whenever you want.

Also if you stay windows you might as well go 10 it wont be any easier fighting off the spyware on 7 than 10.

Finally the real answer is to upgrade to linux.
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>>54110261
>Windows 10 free upgrade deadline is fast approaching.
What's the deadline again?
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I like how 10 looks and seems alright. I just dont like all this auto shit and extra bloat. I wouldn't mind going back to 7 but it's also old as shit now. but it would probably work better on my T420. But no netflix app:(

I don't like using chroome for netflix.
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>>54110261
Honestly? I like it more than 7.
But it's a very personal opinion, I'm not going to recommend it, because you might end up not liking it.

Can't you like - try it?
I think M$ made it possible to revert for precisely that reason.
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Yes OP> You can go back to 7. Windows 10 has the option to revert
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>>54116575
>Wait, were you speaking about Gentoo with the "never broke anything" thing?

Yes
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>>54117011
I did break it a couple of times, but it was my first Linux, I did an intentionally unstable and hipster setup to challenge myself, and it still mostly stopped bugging out after I got X fully working and set up the important configs. An occasional stupid ebuild breaks something on my Unstable, occasionally have to wait so that Unstable becomes Stable Enough, all fixable within half an hour, in case I want to bother at all and not just downgrade temporarily.
Well, OK, there was this thing with freezing TTY framebuffer, but it recently disappeared, and I'm like 75% sure it was some kernel bug, and it didn't affect me much in the first place because's it damn TTY.
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upgrade and activate the restore your windows 7
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>>54110261
Literally nothing wrong with 10 once you debloat it with a few scripts.

/g/ just has the retarded idea thinking any version of Windows is any less botnet when in reality 7, 8, and 10 are all fully botnet no matter what you modify or change.

10 is actually faster, has far superior multi-monitor support and just overall "werks" better than fuckin 7. I thought I'd regret upgrading but its been 10/10 so far compared to 7 or 8.
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>>54110302
Never mind the fact that the majority of /g/ is actually on Windows.
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>>54117151
then*
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>>54117166
>Literally nothing wrong with 10
Welcome back rajeev

Since this is not your own thread, you only get bing points for this post
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>>54116688

Win10 deadline: before the end of July. Whatever 1 year from the release date was, which was something like 23 July 2015.

>>54116614

Upgrade to Win10 works for Vista, Win7, Win8/8.1 either Home (to Home) or Pro (to Pro) editions (Win7 Ultimate upgrades to Win10 Pro). Education & Enterprise editions CANNOT take the free upgrade.

If you have Win7 Home 64-bit on your system, your best upgrade path is to do a clean install with Win7 Pro 64-bit (any pirate version will do) and take the upgrade to Win10 Pro 64-bit.

If you have a 32-bit version installed, it will upgrade to 32-bit Win10; 64-bit upgrades to 64-bit.

>>54116585
> Win7 tied to hardware

Yes and no. Usually, no. In some cases, yes. Depends on the hardware (the mobo BIOS), the manufacturer/OEM, &/or how it was activated.


Pro-tip: one reason to clean install a fresh Win7 (or Win8) is so you can control all the personal info embedded in the installation. You can create a profile of minimum data and an entirely alternate personal profile. Which then will be embedded in the Win10 upgrade, and you will need to register the Win10 upgrade with personal data (such as email address, although technically you don't "have to," many features get locked away from you if you don't have use a registered microsoft profile tied to the Win10 license).

So, prepare an alternate personal info profile ahead of time, and register that as a microsoft profile with all the alias info. And don't lose it ... you may need it to active/reactivate restore or regain access a few years from now.
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>>54110261
Stay with Windows 7
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>>54117099
>>54115415
Fellow Gentoo user. Never had a gentoo box go down on me really. Use it on my Workstation. I update once a month and whenever major GLSA sec updates crop up. It's better to stay minimal in the kernel side of things and keep the CFLAGS conservative, although I've started to put LTO and graphite loop optimizations in specific programs. Also, avoiding qt, gtk, KDE, and GNOME dependencies whenever you don't need them is pretty good as you can get twisted up into dependency hells if you don't. My rig has about 50 CAE/CAD tools (with MPI and PBS support) along with some developer tools and I am still under 600 packages. Another protip is to EFI stub boot or use an EFI bootloader like rEFInd if you use UEFI bios. I use XFS on my root and home though BTRFS is more recommendable in my use case. Most can be content with ext4.
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>>54116523
>win10 struggles with dx9 and 10
>dx12 soon mainstream
>dx12 is win10 exclusive
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>>54112349
>better performance
>less botnet
Keep dreaming
>better ui
That's partially true, there weren't dumbed down versions of every gui. Flat is comfy though.
>it just works
So does 10
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>>54117433
>>54116614
Sorry, I'll explain myself better: will Win10 be genuine if upgrading from W8.1 activated with Microsoft Toolkit (as seen on >>54114255)?

I thought of installing Win7 + daz.loader and then upgrading to W10 before reading >>54116473
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>>54117531

As far as I know, yes.

Microsoft doesn't care where or how or what version you upgrade from, so long as it's Home or Pro. They are using this offer to rope as many people into Win10 as they can and to eliminate as many pirated copies of previous versions as they can.

I can state categorically that Win7 Pro and Win7 Ultimate upgrade to genuine, activated Win10 Pro sing DAZ because that's what I've done for about 20 friends and family in the past year. I've read a lot and heard a lt that Win8/8.1 presents no problems with various pirated activation hacks, I've just not personally done it.

Most have had Win7 Home OEM on their HP or Dell or Acer or whatever. I performed a clean Win7 Ult 64-bit on those machines (because I have a clean pirated copy on a flash drive), DAZ'd them, got basic updates working, made sure all hardware & drivers were working, then took the Win10 upgrade. All worked.

Caveats: the systems were reasonably modern, like ~2007 to 2013 manufacture. So Win10 didn't fail on any of them.

Also, you don't need to install any updates on the new pirated install ... Win10 will take care of whatever microsoft wants to take care of during the upgrade. I just let a few of them in and configure the update scheduler so that some of those settings are migrated as legacy into Win10 from the beginning.

You MIGHT need to uninstall the microsoft drivers for some hardware and find the correct Win10 drivers from the manufacturer's website. Some of the Win10 generic drivers from ms either don't work or are retarded.

I can't write any more on this. It's too much, and it's all explained in detail in numerous forums around the internet. Use google, please, to inform yourself on further details.
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>>54110619
Tried 10 under beta worked fine, tried "final" and its slow as shit, yes my hardware is *old* but god damn why was the the beta faster?

And this anon is right, why the fuck do you have two control panels, which don't even carry the same settings, there are things on the old control panel that don't even exist on the new one, on the new one there are things that don't exist on the old one.

I hope that when the time comes, they turn off the update to W10 bullshit and get rid of the legacy support they been wanting to do away with for over a decade. That has been their excuse since Vista right, "its so slow because muh legacy support" well remove it then and we'll see if you can actually deliver.
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>>54117197
Fuck off.
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>>54116523
Not defending any versions on that list. But if you go do the same test under WXP you will also get better results than W7 simply because the OS is less resource intensive.
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>>54118474
but its win10 that is less resource intensive in these tests, didnt you heard all these shills? it runs on 256 mb ram!!!
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>>54110261
>Windows 10 free upgrade deadline is fast approaching

When is the deadline? Does this mean we won't get forced Win10 updates for Win7 and 8.1 anymore one the deadline is hit?
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>>54118656
>once the deadline is hit
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>>54118087
Shut the fuck up literal shill
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>tfw canĀ“t activate windows 7
>tfw all the keys i used did not work
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>>54119572
what keys? just use daz loader
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