Remember the ol days when you had to nuke windows every year to keep them running smooth? Man gone are those days. A 7 year old installation, with a million installs and uninstalls, no antivirus ever, been to every filthy corner of the internet. Changed multiple graphics cards. No windows updates enabled for years. Still no issues. It took microshit their whole existence to make a no frills OS.
I'm kind of sorry to see my 7yo win 7 installation go. But i got a new MBO + CPU + RAM, and its time to enter the "current year" with win10. For free of course. Yarrrrrr.
Wish me luck.
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[–] Tallest_Skil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Just install 7 on the new hardware. You probably won’t like 10. And you’ll need to add about 200 IP addresses to your router’s blocklist (not the hosts file, because Windows ignores that) to stop the telemetry back to MIcrosoft.
[–] ExpertShitposter [S] ago
I know i'm gonna hate 10. But...eventually hardware compatibility will run out. Cant stay on 7 forever.
[–] poopscooppp ago
I maybe wrong but doesn't windows 7 have telemetry too?
[–] Tallest_Skil ago
Oh right, they retroactively added it to Windows 7 so you can’t escape. I forgot, because of how terrible that is.