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The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today! (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://time.com/12854/microsoft-to-take-windows-xp-off-life-support-despite-its-29-market-share/

XP was a whopping 29% at EOL which is impressive to me that 7 is only 3%. But it makes sense that 10 has such a large market share since it was free and ran on (almost) everything that ran 7.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think a large part of it is how most of the machines that could run 7 can run everything after 7 (maybe just need more RAM), but many many MANY machines running XP couldn’t move forward because the CPU or the integrated graphics just couldn’t take it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My hard drive couldn't take all the background shit in 10, it would literally stutter scanning my files. When I tried to disable the anti-virus and it told me "I'm sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not trying to judge, but you installed and ran a modern operating system on a spinning platter drive?

I had to switch to SSDs in 2016 because macOS was dragging hard on a Pro notebook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My old laptop doesn't have an M.2 slot

It ran fast enough in windows 8 and linux. It only became unbearable on windows 10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And XP was 32 bit only, it was really an updated version of Win2k, which was really rock solid.

Which kind of supports your point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

XP did have a 64-bit version, but at the time 64-bit wasn't widely used.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

this is full EOL not like normal user EOL, normal user EOL ended in 2020.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wish I could upvote you for your username! Haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's nothing stopping you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I already upvoted for the comment, I'm out of upvotes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I upvoted them for you.