WINDOWS 7 AND A SIGN OF THINGS TO CUM

Time to upgrade...

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>tfw SP1 with updates turned off
>no connection to the internet (for updates)

im fine
windows 7 is fine (as fine as malware gets)

forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/05/04/microsoft-warns-windows-7-boot-up-problem/#38482ff1395e

>updates turned off

congrats you're retarded :)

microsoft has been attempting to sabotage win7 to force everyone over to win10
why the fuck would one need updates when they barely fix anything and only exacerbate existing problems

>installing anything but security updates
m8

retarded for what? my OS runs fine
why would I update past what I need to run.

fuck of w10 shill

How do I access this website without running nonfree javascript?

This.

As for security a good av is all you need, I've never allowed updates to run on my pc.

because, regardless what your brain dead sunday school junior hacker friends tell you to appear cool, updates are indeed used to plug security holes. But it looks like MS won't be waiting for third-party vendors to pick up their shit because they don't give a fuck about 7 anymore

riiight, because ms fix anything other than p1

Fuck this. After I get myself new external hdd (and do some backup on it) I'm gonna reformat everything and change to lubeuntu

So this only affects Asus motherboards?

WAKE ME UP INSIDE

You don't even need Windows update anyway considering all the updates can be downloaded and installed manually from Microsoft's website.

upgrade to linux

worldoflinux.org

Who cares, Windows 10 is not even that bad. Especially if you aren't a potato from Sup Forums who understands how to block communications via your router. Only an idiot thinks he spying is an actual issue.

>being surprised that Microsoft is trying to gimp windows 7 so people will install Windows 10
>even after the Windows 10 update ad for Windows 7
>even after the installation of Windows 10 telemetry for Windows 7
>even after they quietly force installed Windows 10 for some Windows 7 users
How retarded can windowscucks be?

this only applies to Asus motherboards. Microsoft and Asus knew of the problem, and M$ decided to make it a recommended update anyway, breaking Windows for some Asus users. The update in question is KB3133977.

Asus provides a workaround for affected systems here:
asus.com/support/FAQ/1016356/

Macrocunt, of course, used this opportunity on the update information page to plug windows 10.

ABOUT THAT

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lol

>Only an idiot thinks he spying is an actual issue.
>thinks he spying
No wonder you like W10.

windows 10 is actually horrible, regardless of the spying

>Upgrade to Windows 10.
>Steam has issues downloading games. Will randomly pause shit.
>Disconnects a few times a day, for absolutely no reason.
>Can't printscreen and copy screenshots directly to anything. Have to go to Imgur for whatever fucking reason.
>Wallpapers are compressed more than usual.
>No real differences. Same speed. Same everything.

What the fuck was the point of upgrading?

Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
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Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
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Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
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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:
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Micrcrosoft automatically downloads Windows 10 on PCs running
Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (between 3.5GB and 6GB), even if
users have not opted-in:
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Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
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Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
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> 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.

Sorry, but i'm not this autistic over UI scheme

>context menu looks different depending on the context

oh no

Same things apply to Google, Apple and the Linux kernel which is under NSA control through SELinux.

nice pasta.

Don't forget Microsoft offers services that necessitated this collection, and can be disabled otherwise!

>It's a wincucks cling desperately to their botnet episode

>tfw you're part of the botnet

Akarin is not part of the botnet

>Time to upgrade...
I switched to Linux. If I really need to I can run Win8 in a VM.

i'm not going to sit here and argue with you. If you want to use wangblows 10 as a facebook gaming machine more power to you. You're either not power users, paid shills, or you've found some ill conceived way to rationalize windows 10's pitfalls.

It's bloated, functionality was downgraded, and apart from minor performance improvements on older hardware and a couple new features, it's worse is every conceivable way.

>Linux kernel which is under NSA control through SELinux

I like to game and use a system with competent drivers from time to time is all.

Linux is great and all, but there is literally no compare when it comes to the desktop shell experience

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How long until Microshaft starts creating devastating malware tailored towards W7.

Im almost sure botnet updates have been disguised as security updates before.

She know how turn on a computer?

>I like to game and use a system with competent drivers from time to time is all.
so do I I'm a wangblows user myself. I'm sticking to 7 though because it's not complete shit

Haven't updated since 2010.

>kill the main product
Why?

>serious problem
>just turn off UEFI in the BIOS
Wow, it's fucking nothing.

>cries about context menu inconsistencies
>calls others facebook gamers

okay user...

>sorry, but I have no standards for quality, windows 10 is fine and everybody should upgrade, even though nothing about it is any good at all. people who want things that don't suck are just autistic

W7 is old news and 10 has a bunch of UI improvements though lol. Yeah there are a lot of security issues but it's mostly FSF-zealot FUD

Lol they are literally trying to kill it.

Sorry, but I don't concern myself with petty issues like UI consistency.

the reworked start menu is much better than 7, which was literally the only issue anyone had with 8. Then there's the updates and improved support that comes with a newer version...

>told my mom not to update to win10
>it auto updates to window 10
>now half of her devices don't work

>muh automatic drivers

To force those non-retarded to move to W10? I know if they actually pull something like this im seriously and permanently moving to linux.

And the desktop shell experience of windows 10 is a slapdash inconsistent mess.

>the reason I use windows is because of the good desktop UI. no I don't care that the desktop UI isn't good

>TFW macrocucks will defent this.

>>now half of her devices don't work

what do you mean my ISA graphics adapter doesn't work??? fucking windows 10

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Oh look this user is retarded, but blames it on the OS.

no it isn't. It's exactly the same as 7, with a better start menu and a mobile OS on top if you want to run some of your mobile apps on your desktop.

It's worth it too considering how lightweight MDL2 is overall

>tfw my parents wanted to update and i told them if they did so it'd brick itself
always works

great post, pajeet

who is this?

Gnu/Daddy.

nice try, stallman

>I don't concern myself with petty issues like the user interface that I have to interact with 100% of the time I'm using the operating system.
Do you concern yourself with anything? Let me guess, you concern yourself with all of windows 10's meager benefits, but not any of its flaws. Shill.

Nishikino Maki

If anyone creates the year of the Linux desktop, it'll be Microsoft. Jesus.

The windows 10 start menu sucks dick. Jesus.

you really think different looking context menus are that big of an issue? It's supposed to look different

It's not about the UI (although the UI is also shit). It's about the entire paradigm. There are now two types of applications: store apps and desktop apps. UWP (store) apps don't follow any of the rules of normal apps (they can ignore the hosts file for example) and all follow a completely different design. You can't even uninstall the bloat without ps1 scripts, and even if you do windows will throw (literally) tens of thousands of entries into the event log as they constantly try to run for whatever reason.

The settings menu is a great example of this. Everything that exists in the settings menu used to exist in the control panel. But now it's both. So now you're switching between two completely different UI styles just to do something that worked perfectly well before.

The context menus only serve as an example of the amalgamation of spagetti code shit in windows 10. In 7 there was 1 shell. That's it. 10 has everything 7 did. It also has everything 8.1 did. And piled precariously on top of the already bloated windows code base you have the "new" windows 10 UI.

It's not simply about the UI looking shitty, it's about the entire experience being jarring, and the clear lack of direction.

Of course, this is only one of the many, many issues with windows 10.

it's better than the 7 start menu. It's more content rich and the only complaint people had about 8.1 was that they couldn't look at their weebums while searching the start screen, so...

>>with a better start menu
>can't even search for executables with full indexing anymore

just don't use any store apps then

also the reworked settings app (particularly in the fast ring) is better then the busted old control panel

I think the fact that the UI is slapped together out of 4 separate design languages is a tremendous issue, yeah. The context menus are only one part of it.

They actually are too, the shilling is real.

7 is how old now?

it's time, user, let it go

it's two, that are almost entirely separate, but okay. It's not like GNOME, KDE, or xorg are any better haha

That's because you should be using apps now user.... unless... you're a terrorist

>just don't use any store apps then
alternatively I can just stick to 7. Win10 will actively push store apps, bloat, and continue to break more things for users like me with Cortana integrations, etc.

Windows 7 works out of the box. I don't have a win7 folder with 30+ scripts to unfuck it, nor a 3rd party start menu or any other supplemental software.

I've spent hours fighting 10 and it's not worth it. To get it to work the way I want it needs to be broken, and I'm not going to use a broken OS.

I've been using windows since 95 but I'm done, 10 along with 8.0 and vista are just objectively bad OSes, each in their own respects.

I'll weigh my options in 2020 when support for 7 ends. Linux mint is pretty comfy for non-gaming stuff anyway.

GNOME and KDE are pretty consistant.
They have autists who make it their personal duty to check for consistancy.

It's nowhere near the shambles that is Windows 10.

>I like to game and use a system with competent drivers from time to time is all.
Like GNU/Linux?
Last time I installed Windows 8.1 I had to download the drivers for the Intel iGPU manually, Windows Update did download them after a while but they didn't even support OpenGL 2.1
There's no worse OS drivers wise than Windows

> Win10 will actively push store apps, bloat, and continue to break more things for users like me with Cortana integrations, etc.

Funny how you say these things yet they never seem to happen to me on my laptop that came with Win10.

Amazing how all these Windows 7 users complain about all these annoyances they experience with Win10, yet I never see them in daily use...

See

gaming and RDP are the only reasons I still use it...

help me, Sup Forums???

I had none of those issues with Windows 7.

You system will be vunerable and worms will exploit it without you even knowing. Enjoy your rekt.

>>continue to break more things for users like me
>Amazing how all these Windows 7 users complain about all these annoyances they experience with Win10, yet I never see them in daily use...

that's because you're not a user like me.

Which is why you search for updates once a week, and investigate each update, not have it all installed automatically you mongrel

It's four, actually. There's cruft from the windows 95-2000 design language, cruft from XP, and cruft from Vista-7. Now they've piled on another layer with metro, and of course, they'll never bother to actually finish it by the time flat had become passe and it's time for a new half-assed redesign.

>Windows 7 works out of the box. I don't have a win7 folder with 30+ scripts to unfuck it, nor a 3rd party start menu or any other supplemental software.

This is what annoys me with winbabbies.
"why do you use loonicks just use windows? it's just werks®"
>can have a debian install from scratch with little work
>windows needs updates, skiddy patches, shonky driver installation and it still has problems --and if you want to upgrade to w10, you'll have to make sure you have a functioning windows install already, or you're in for a long night
Hell, even Arch is easier if you know how to read.

Your right, Windows 10 apparently will only annoy you if you're some retard like yourself.

Amazing how it works perfectly fine for me as I said even when my sole use is a development platform when i'm out and about.

This only affects ASUS computers you retard

>I can just stick to 7

if you want to hold onto a dying platform, sure

>if you're some retard like yourself.
nice ad hominem. And since we're talking about anecdotal experiences I'd like to bring up the fact that VS 2015 crashes almost daily for me on 10 and has not yet crashed at all on 7.

>This is what annoys me with winbabbies
don't misunderstand me user, I'm comparing 7 to 10, not 7 to linux. Linux mint worked right out of the box for me as well, with the exception of my graphics driver which I was able to find easily in the package manager.

>Using 8.1
>mfw I stopped getting Win10 update prompts months ago
Feels good.

it's still supported until 2020 and if XP is any indication it will probably be used far beyond that. Seeing as I don't have a better option currently, I see no issue with sticking to supported software that meets my needs.

>freefags unironically believe this

Upgraded to gentoo

XP FOR LIFE MEIN NIGER

>don't misunderstand me user
I'm agreeing with you, silly.

Sorry friend, but when in reality anecdotal experiences matter the most because I don't give a fuck about how dumb you are in regards to using Windows 10 when I use it just fine and never get any annoyances like you do.

Wouldn't amaze me if you actually left all the ad settings on and didn't even try to edit your menu.

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