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Ancient! What does that make me!?
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? still works fine on my windows 7 pc.
I'm not a fan of Win 7/8 being called "ancient"
When Win7 reached EOL we were using Linux 5.4
That's pretty ancient.
In computer time, it is pretty ancient.
"This could take like hundreds of nanoseconds... It could even take one. Whole. Second! 😱" - Enzo Matrix, Reboot
The tech industry moves fast. Win 7/8 are ancient in tech terms
Tell that to the MS Dos PCs I regularly have to maintain and provide safety to. They still live.
Something can be ancient and still function for purpose. We've uncovered ancient pottery intact.
Something that came out last week can be considered ancient in tech terms.
Windows 7 is 15 years old. If it was a person it would be able to get a learners permit to drive in many states.
It's also been EOL for over 4 years.
We don’t call 15 year old cars ancient. Blu rays aren’t ancient. CDs aren’t ancient. Tons of things are 15 years old and fallen out of general use but aren’t considered ancient.
I’d argue that XP is ancient but not Win7.
Cars have an expected lifespan of like 20 years, operating systems don't.
Windows 7 came out with very early support for efi boot which took explicit effort to get to work. At this point most OEM machines out there don't even support the legacy booting mode. That is ancient by tech standards.
Don't give up! Run bootleg Win10 on a VM
LOL, bootleg W10? Why? It's not EOL. Massgrave FTW
Or just install Linux like a normal person.
*a normal fedi person
So you can play games at 1/2 the frame rate?
It’s time to install Nobara on those machines.
Personally, I dislike that Nobara is relying on patched Mesa and kernel versions. This is unnecessary risk of instability. AFAIK Bazzite doesn't do that.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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