What the fuck is even going on in that picture? Her boobs wrap around her torso or something?

>>108988796
a chromebook is all you need.

>>108988796
yes, you're in luck. I'm posting from firefox ESR 115. It works on nearly every site.

Here are some browsers I use/you could try
>Pale Moon
IMO, the best for /g/ autists but doesn't work so well on many modern (aka pozzed) sites.
>Firefox ESR
mozilla, pozzed, etc etc. but it works pretty fine
>r3dfox
fork of firefox made for win7. Works great.
>Chromium 109
last version to work on win 7
>Supermium
chromium fork for win7. Pretty much always works if any site is giving you trouble on any other browser
probably a few more I'm missing but try any of those.

Also, at this point, you can run most if not all new browsers on win7 using Second System but you do have to "donate" $5 a month to the guy to get access to the software. I personally think it's worth it but you don't need it for your use case anyway since all the browsers above will work for you

>>108988814

It's her butt.

>>108988872

Thank you, that should do it because I still can't get used to win 10.

>>108988796
lickin' her sweaty armpit rn

>>108988796
>brikot
based he draws the best asses

>>108988796
who spit on her right cheek

>>108989020
what kind of feeling and experience do you have when you look at brikot's artwork?

>>108989051
penis hard

>>108988993
>I still can't get used to win 10.
yep, me neither. I tried it once and hated it so much I put 7 on my laptop and I've been using it to this day. I tried many experiments in VMs to see if I could get 10 into a condition I found acceptable. At the time I thought I'd for sure have to move over, but now that all these compatibility layers exist for 7 I'm pretty much back up to date in terms of software support again.

If you're really serious about staying on 7 I still do very much recommend Second System. I know I come across like a shill or maybe even the guy who makes the software himself when I mention it on this board but it's let me keep using 7 which is far more valuable to me than the few bucks I spent on donating. But I do understand not wanting to pay for any software. VxKex works for a few programs as well but not nearly as good as second system does.

>>108988814
lmao I was wondering the same thing I dod not see the butt angle at all

>>108989180
Yeah me neither. Faggot OP cropped it.

>>108988796
Try this I guess?
https://classic7.lol/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLecpASQacM

>>108988796
vanilla chromium works with vxkex. supermium works. there's another chromium fork that runs on vanilla win7. there's multiple firefox forks that run on win7.

>>108988814
Have sex.

>>108988796
>Hey guise is there a way to use a deprecated OS with plenty of zero-click RCE vulns???
>>108988872
>omg yes here r browsers to connect your compromised OS to the interwebs!!
>>108988993
>wow thank you anon who definitely isn’t me samefagging or anything
Every single day

>>108989619
Having sex makes the artist's shitty grasp on anatomy even more obvious.

>>108988796
Install gentoo

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>>108988872
>yes, you're in luck. I'm posting from firefox ESR 115. It works on nearly every site.

What a coincidence.

>>108988796
Her armpit.
My penis.
Now.

I love mega shit mk2's armpit bros

>>108988796
>>>107644112
>>>107073347

>>108988796
https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium
https://archive.org/details/windows-7-updated-2024-06-12
https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/why-i-am-using-windows-7-machine-as-a-daily-driver-in-2024/

>>108989150
I can barely find any information about it. What is second system, I require a full explanation.

>>108989468
Fuck no. The problem with this is that it's fundamentally running windows 10 under the hood. The wallpaper color is irrelevant, the reason I keep using 7 is because it DOESN'T run like utter dog dick that 10 is.

>>107644112
>>107073347
Newer fork
https://github.com/cercos/4chan-neXT

>>108990376
honestly, I don't even remember what forum I heard about it on. The same guy who maintains Supermium started making a compatibility layer sort of thing called Second System. I think I looked into it when VxKex wasn't really working with most of the applications I wanted to run.

You install it, and then (for the most part) newer Windows software will just work. The catch is, you need to pay $5 a month to get access to the software. Or you could pay $5 just once and get access to the page and download everything and cancel your subscription, which is done through patreon, which I've never used prior to this.

There have been a few issues but the guy is responsive and shit gets fixed pretty fast. look up 'second system' 'patreon' 'legacy software corporation'

https://www.patreon.com/cw/Alan_A?vanity=Alan_A
He makes some games windows 7 compatible. I got elden ring running on windows 7 but it was less than 20fps so I probably need to get a 3090ti or something.

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Why hasn't anyone used the leaked code to turn XP into a seriously danger competitor to microjeet OS that could steal their market?

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>>108988796
If all you need is a browser why the fuck are you using Windows? Install Linux Mint with XFCE if you're tech illiterate and need a lightweight but easy to use machine for browsing the web. Otherwise buy a $100 Chromebook.

>>108990435
This. Honestly I despise the kind of "person" whom to a computer is nothing more than a dedicated "browser" machine. But that's what the invention of the smartphone did to the world.

>>108990427
Because Windows's code is a total mess of decades of legacy cruft piled on top of each other for the sake of backwards compatibility, a fact that anyone who has ever had to develop Win32 apps is painfully familiar with. Not to mention that when people say the "liked XP", what they really mean is the interface and its responsiveness, not the underlying system architecture, which was always complete garbage.

>>108990495
Well windows 10 has a shitty interface, is unresponsive, and its system architecture is written by Indians, so XP still sounds preferable.

>>108990495
>a fact that anyone who has ever had to develop Win32 apps is painfully familiar with
and somehow it's still better than trying to develop Linux apps
>oh shit, i have to worry about whether user has libnigger-1.4 installed, which is incompatible with 1.5, but many distros still have libfaggot-2.8.0b3 which is an alternative that is kind of compatible but also not really because muh open sores devs don't owe you anything chud

>>108990437
There's nothing wrong with somebody using a computer as a browser. It's a tool. They can be used for different jobs and not everyone is a turbo autist like us. Relax. I was just saying he doesn't specifically need Windows for using a browser, anything works, so use something lightweight and up to date instead.

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>>108988796
>Do browsers still work with win7?
You can still post on 4chan and watch YouTube on even XP with Supermium:
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

>>108990701
What about if you didn't consider any of that and just listed whatever lib you decided to use as a dependency? Did you try that?

>>108990751
>just don't worry about what your users actually have on their systems and tell them they need to install XYZ first
ok retard
on windows you don't need to think about ANY of this nonsense
you want to use a library? just include its .dll with your program, and it just werks
and won't break in the future if the user updates the computer

>>108988796
enjoy your unpatched security vulnerabilities. you can't connect to the internet on any old proprietary OS, you will get ransomware sooner or later

>>108988814
you have worse visual comprehension than AI

>>108988796
Is she taking a shit? Gross

>>108988796
sauce?

>>108990427
Nobody who is competent enough to do that wants to bother with Windows.

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>>108988814
>>108989180

It's a bit easier to read when you have the full image, but the perspective is messed up either way. Her arm should be way smaller.

>>108991147
Please tell me it's maebari.

>>108991151
No, she's nude.
gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=13969898&tags=brikot+

>>108988796
>>108988814
that drawing makes no sense anatomically and it bothers me

>>108991159
Too bad, pussy's for faggots.

>>108991169
I have no idea how people can care about anatomy when gooning.

>>108989652
>>108990952
Are you doing it for free?

>>108988796
Yes, pretty much completely. Occasionally you will have to jump through some hoops to install stuff, but otherwise it just werks.

>>108991195
>posts here every day with a bs samefag win7 shill thread
>asks the people making fun of you if they're doing it for free

>>108990701
>sudo apt install thingIwant
>installs all the required dependencies automatically
>justwerks.jpg
>anon on g shilling 20+ year old proprietary OS without security updates claims that isn't good enough

>>108991393
>just use an app store where installing steam can also uninstall your GUI
lol, lmao even

Windows 7 is ultimately doomed by the lack of new hardware, due to driver signings being no longer performed, you have to run Windows 7 in a special boot mode to run newer hardware. And aero isn't available on new GPUs. Even if you extend the kernel you eventually can't beat anti cheat and drm stopping popular software from running.

Windows 7 is like a town on an eroding cliff, yes you might get lucky for a few years but eventually your house will fall.

Windows 98 has already fallen, XP is barley hanging on and 7 will probably be lost when Windows 10 LTSC loses a lot of the "scaffolding" keeping extended kernels viable.

>>108988814
I think it's an ass.

>>108990427
We already have ReactOS.

>>108991486
>source? I made it up
enjoy taking an fpv drone to the face Anton, I hear Ukraine is launching deeper strikes into Russia so maybe your office is next!

>>108991525
Don't they refuse to use leaked code?

>>108991486
win7 cant even run steam anon, much less 95% of games kek
Also never heard of that happening ever, cry harder

>>108991332
That was my first /g/ post this week, schizo-san.

>>108991576
>win7 cant even run steam anon
Anon...I...

>>108991588
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A

>>108991393
>sudo apt install thingIwant
Only as long as this

thingIwant

actually exists in the repositories.

>>108991735
True. On Windows, the answer is sadly always "no" anyway.

>>108991513
This, Windows 7 officially only supports as new as Skylake computers, and they're over 10 years old now, still pretty powerful, but there is no path forward for Windows 7 when it comes to hardware, I virtualize Windows 7 all the time to run my Sony Vegas and Photoshop, but at least with Linux, I can get a brand new computer and keep using my same shit and get all the support and newer technologies that come out, but by sticking with Windows 7, you're kinda screwed because you think you're running this based speedy OS, but you're stuck on older, less efficient hardware and not getting any mainstream software support, so you end up just being a worse off Linux user.

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>>108990952
>people still connect to the Internet balls-deep raw without any kinds of basic network security (firewall, CGNAT)
>according to faggot-kun
Sorry, anon. That youtube video by your fav eceleb showcasing windows getting haxxored in under 5 secs you have just seen - he deliberately turned off all kinds of security on the software side and put the host on a DMZ

>>108991599
I'm not sure how to tell you this, but..
Steam as well as 99% of all games work fine on Win7...

>>108992063
>no gpu drivers for anything newer than 10 years old
>no steam
>no DX12
youre a riot anon, literally everything short of “my computer gives me blowjobs now!!”
any idiot who’s dumb enough to burn w7 after reading your thread is going to have the illusion of it being some magical OS shattered once they attempt to install it and 70% of their shit doesn’t work due to missing drivers that were never released for this abandonware

>>108992348
You're never gonna convince these insane people otherwise Anon, they just live in this false reality that everything that currently still sorta works on Windows 7 or they can hack around to make it work will just continue to work forever, and they'll just keep using the same computer forever without ever having to replace it, and of course any time you mention the reality of using unsupported software, they take it as some sort of attack on Windows 7 and themselves, it's like "no dude, windows 7 was based in it's day, but nothing fucking supports it going forward"

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>>108988796
Use me instead.

>>108991159
>no futa cock
What's the point?

>>108992348
>>no steam
why do you keep repeating the same lie again and again?

>>108992782
Yes Anon, no steam... You're never gonna get a new version of steam for Windows 7 so when things break in this chrome based bullshit after years and years, they're not gonna fuckin fix it because it's an supported system.

>>108992834
>You're never gonna get a new version of steam for Windows 7
usecase for the new steam version?

btw i'm nta and am just calling you on your bullshit, i personally pirate all the games and don't use steam out of principle

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>FRESHLY INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 - UPDATES AND DRIVERS
>"How do I install update/it won't let me install updates?"
Simplix's UpdatePack7R2!
v26.1.15: https://blog.simplix.info/update7
DDL: https://update7.simplix.info/UpdatePack7R2.exe

Alternatively, install the following two updates IN THIS ORDER to make Windows Update function on a freshly installed SP1 instance to install updates manually:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb3020369
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb3172605

>"Nvidia says 475.14 is the final driver version but it doesn't work?"
472.12 is the last that cleanly installs, but 475.14 works with modification and has several years of vulnerability patches over 472.12. Use the following to make 475.14 work:
https://github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-WIn7-Win8-Signed-Driver/releases

>"How do I install Windows 7 on my modern motherboard?"
UefiSeven!
https://github.com/manatails/uefiseven

>"Help! I need USB drivers!"
Here you go!
https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/drivers/413859d1621062354-cloned-ssd-not-booting-new-pc-usb-3-0-ports-usb3_win7_2021.zip

>WORKING MODERN PROGRAMS & SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 7
>"Is there an updated, modern, secure browser?"
win32's Supermium!
v144.0.7559.247 R2: https://www.win32subsystem.live/supermium/
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

>"How can I still run Steam/other program?"
VxKex!
v1.1.4.1588: https://github.com/i486/VxKex/releases

>"NVidia drivers are bloated and they suck!"
NVCleanstall!
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/

>"I need modern Python updates to work!"
PythonVista!
https://github.com/adang1345/PythonVista

>"I need modern MKVToolnix updates to work!"
MKVToolnix for Windows 7!
https://github.com/jpsdr/MKVToolnix-Windows-7/releases

>>108991994
>Skylake
That's on the Intel side. AMD officially supported Windows 7 through all of AM4, and several AM5 motherboards work thanks to modified versions of those drivers. You'll be able to run the latest Ryzen CPUs on Windows 7 for a few more years. GPUs are the real bottleneck that cap out on official drivers from 2022 from AMD and 2023 from Nvidia, but the 3090ti is still more than enough power.
Plus IIRC, the second system guy is working on "something" for extended GPU support.

>>108993345
>community made bullshit
This is literal hackintosh-tier effort for an unsupported OS, jesus christ... and it's fucking Windows of all things, the whole point of Windows 7 in it's day is that it "just works" and is very supported in spite of its shortcomings as a Windows OS.

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>>108993477
Ah, yes. Supporting and maintaining something you like is a negative.

>>108989652
Yeah but anyone this much of a paranoid skitzoid isn't going to have anything of value to lose so who cares.

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>>108993616
That would be nice if you could actually maintain and do your own thing, but it's a closed source system, fucking around with windows 7 is like being a Linux user but without even the benefits of being a Linux user stuff will continue to break and you have no way of fixing it, using a compatibility layer to run stuff that only wants to run isn't maintaining anything, the Windows API will continue to change when Microsoft wants it to and things will just continue to break over time.

Windows 7 is best left for a virtual machine, I loved the time I had with it, I love the software that I used on it, but I know that I'm not gonna be able to use it as the main system forever.

>>108993672
>stuff that only wants to run
run on Windows 10*

>>108993672
>fucking around with windows 7 is like being a Linux user but without even the benefits of being a Linux user
except that your system doesn't bricks itself every year over a mundane update, you get access to games, good software and still takes less effort to do mundane shit even with the workarounds than getting anything useful out of loonix.

>>108988796
>win7
>outdated
>win11
>is getting shittier and shittier
linux seems like a logical choice, but I don't want winbabies

>>108993748
the awful thing is that the best linux distros still can't hold a candle to a debloated win10/11 in terms of usability unless you run everything through a windows emulator or aren't a software dev yourself.

>>108993727
Most recent Windows software arguably runs better on Wine than it does on Windows 7.

>>108993766
>or are a software dev yourself.*

>>108993766
>old photoshop and m$ office works in wine
unless you need games, linux is fine

>>108993727
>except that your system doesn't bricks itself every year over a mundane update
What is this meme? I've been using ubuntu based shit since 2008 and this has never happened, always the motherfuckers allergic to Linux that have the most to say about it.

>>108992348
It's okay to be wrong sometimes, Anon. Calm down.

>>108993806
i've used mint in 2010s and the DE started persistently breaking down after updates within the first two years.

>>108989619
>having sex makes you good at human anatomy
gooner mentality

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>People are using Windows 7 and supporting each other discussing how to use it?

>>108993805
my experience with wine has been terrible, miles worse than running things on windows 7 now. no premade instructions work, programs glitch out while running, everything needs endless wandering through settings nobody explains that you have no idea what they do, it's pure cancer. tweaking DPI bypass software settings to find working solutions are the same experience and even then it's not as bad.

>>108993769
the only "recent" software that i'd consider using is network-related in which case wine won't help either.

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>>108993847
I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Anon.

>>108993851
unless the program is incompatible with wine, then wine just works
but relying on wine for everything is a bad practice, just get the native linux programs

>>108993886
>just get the native linux programs
*pukes*

What's the last version of vulkan that works on 7?
Also how come this absolute nigger retard https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home purges previous releases of it from the internet? I literally can't find older releases fucking ANYWHERE. This behavior is one of the most cancerous and anti-free software mindsets on the planet.
>no you aren't allowed to install the version of software you want

>>108993888
What's wrong with FOSS? I dumped windows 7 when chrome 109 countries edition dropped because I realized I was a goofy ass motherfucker for holding onto an OS that most of the software I used everyday on was literally open source, and I couldn't get a newer computer and put 7 on it due to drivers.

>>108993900
lucky you
>paint.net
>sumatrapdf
>mpc-hc
I am considering pinta or krita to try out as possible replacements for the first, but I will literally never use an alternative to the latter two because they are simply perfect software.

>>108993914
Honestly anon, you're a strong case for just having a Windows VM within Linux to run that shit since it's non gaming, I mean I edit video on Sony Vegas in Virtualbox and it's not half bad.

>>108993935
Actually I'm making a strong case for having a linux vm within windows 7 to run other shit. Let me be clear, windows 7 is the first class citizen here, linux is the second class citizen.

>>108993947
Linux has to be first class anon, just because you can run it on a sweet ass new computer like I don't have but it is possible, I have an old ass i7 8700, and it renders video faster virtually than my actual FX-8350 did running Windows 7 on bare metal, and if I had an 8 core Ryzen or some shit, it would be going even faster, this is why I tell people who like Windows 7 to just make Linux boxes and run your 7 shit there, you actually get better performance than you would on an old PC.

>>108993900
no meaningful developer or community support, dogshit documentation, volit-inducing interface and design, lack of features, tons of quirks, incompatibilities and bugs

there's not a single piece of linux software that's half as good as PaintNET, SumatraPDF, Notepad++, MPC-HC, AIMP/winamp and the only decent ones are the ones that were ported to linux at some point like FFsync, Keepass and OpenOffice.

using any native linux software in an unpleasant experience to the extreme and is a constant, compounding burden that interferes with your work and your life more and more, much like enshittified junk megacorps like modern microsoft push onto you.

>>108993967
>Linux has to be first class anon
Well sadly that's just not going to happen. It can stay in its ghetto and if it's not happy with that then I won't even give it the luxury of existing in a VM on my computer.

>>108993935
my pc is too shit to run windows on a vm well and going through all those extra steps just to shoehorn linux into this seems pointless unless your web security is under direct threat.

>>108993982
You don't have to like Linux but that fucking Kernel has support for computers going foward, it's the only way Windows 7 is gonna live forever, unless you wanna run it in a VM on Windows 11 and beyond (gross).

>>108993985
I'm doing lifetime buy of the strongest hardware that supports it, so it can in fact live forever during my lifespan.

>>108993967
>I have an old ass i7 8700
jokes on you, i'm posting here from my AMD X2 215 4gb RAM pc that's running smoothly with a music player and two web browsers open with over a dozen tabs in each.

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>>108993993
Based parts collector, I bought a bunch to keep using Windows 7 on bare metal so I can load up GTA SA and other old shit

The inventory right now
2x FX-8350s new in box
2x 16GB 1866 kits new in box
2x Corsair 300R cases new in box
4X 990FXA-UD3 boards new ion box
4X Used HD7970s
2X Corsair 750W PSUs
2X big ass Hyper T4 coolers
2X built FX-8350 rigs


>>108993996
Asking, begging for a Linux distro with XFCE

>>108994034
>Asking, begging for a Linux distro with XFCE
no thanks, i'd burn my pc down by dousing it in gasoline within a week of using that shit.

all i needed to do was turn off a few unnecessary services and switch to a non-transparent theme and the only time my windows 7 makes me wait is on startup.

>>108994034
I'm just sad that beyond my selfish ability to keep windows 7 going during my life, that most other people in the world are never going to be able to experience or have a good, functional operating system again. Enshittification is so strong that they are all growing up on windows 10 thinking it's normal for computers to run as badly as windows 10 runs. They will never know how much better they could have it.

>>108994049
Ahh you'd love Mint XFCE Anon, whole OS uses like 650mb of RAM on Mint XFCE, I used to think Windows 7 was the lightest motherfucker back in the day, but it's actually massively bloated compared to just how minimal some of these Linux desktop environments are, and you can have it on an up to date kernel which means it you're fast as fuck on a newer computer.

>>108994070
It is unfortunate when it comes to Windows because that's where the mainstream is, and it runs to terribly now, I hate that I've had to join club penguin, but it's the only way to get away from enshittification, that's why I keep telling people, "Look I get Windows 7 was fucking excellent, but Windows sucks ass now, we need to move to another way of doing things because the windows way has got us here".

>>108994084
>Mint XFCE
i didn't like XFCE one bit when i tried using it and i doubt it's seen any development since then. cinnamon was ok when it was actually running but still not nearly as convenient as windows 7. with ungoogled-chromium running right now with two dozen tabs i'm sitting at 2.77GB RAM used.

>>108994141
That's not bad, fucking Windows 10 and 11 idle at like 3Gb of RAM it's crazy

>>108994164
i used to lack ram before switching to solid color theme and 30fps videos for youtube, otherwise i'm planning on playing frostpunk soon, with Anno 1404, Torchlight 2 and AOW3 running well.

i think debloated win 10 isn't nearly as bad as the base one.

>>108993646
They’ve got a deliberately vulnerable computer and probably a decent fiber connection, perfect for a relay if you’re a state sponsored hacker who needs a lot of those.

>>108994084
hey anon, in case you're here, i've just finished my session and closed my browser just to check and my windows 7 uses exactly 750mb of ram when idle.

>>108994492
That's glorious, the sad part is that Windows could still be like this, but Microsoft fucking sucks and Windows users kinda have to take what they're fucking given if they want to stay up to date.

>>108994511
the biggest issue is forced obsolescense through 3rd party attacks like incompatible web standards, programming libraries and unsupported dependencies, they actively break compatibility and force people to shift to the new stuff because otherwise they'd just stop updating and keep relying on the old functionality. they are actively implementing things that break compatibility with old systems or software nowadays, especially after they publicly denounced the win7, rather than just neglect the old and unmaintained versions like they used to or maintain them and improve compatibility like what used to be a normal thing.

internet and gaming has become a lot more hostile and controlled since its centralization around several megacorporations, and you can hardly find anything outside of their ecosystem because the search engines disregard old text based websites, blogposts and forums and flood everything with ai or mass produced articles and reddit instead.

>>108993974
No, I can’t use Linux cause…
>a paint program
>a fucking pdf reader
>a text editor that’s been in the news multiple times over the last year for serving malware
>some literally who program, use VLC like an adult
ngmi, just keep using win 7 lmao we don’t need you

>>108994755
>some literally who program
Kek a literally who program that is no longer maintained since 2017 as well, it's amazing the excuses people will make about why they can't use Linux, it's like they're allergic to even using something that works like Ubuntu, which is at least fucking supported going forward, which Windows 7 is not and will never be.

>>108994755
yes, i won't use troonix because it lacks any software that you can do anything useful with, so i'll leave you to your nonbinary fellows to jerk each other off in between the sessions of maintaining a dysfunctional shitheap that's not good for anything but taking screenshots of and tinkering while high on your own farts.

>>108994755
>use VLC like an adult
vlc is a bloated piece of garbage with an linux-tier interface and an idiotic and pointless pretense to be an audio player. it only fits the idea of befitting adults if you consider being molested by your parents as a condition for adulthood.

>>108994778
>dysfunctional shitheap
Uhh Anon, a windows 7 user clinging onto an on supported system is more of an odd man out than a Linux user at this point in time.

>>108994769
>something that works like Ubuntu
i'm sorry but having an interface that goes further in emulating android than the most recent windows isn't "something that works"

>>108994796
That's the beauty of Linux isn't it? You don't have to use Ubuntu with gnome, there's a number of desktops you can download it with, from very minimal, to very feature rich, and unlike Windows 7 it'll actually work on a new machine without doing a bunch of necessary bullshit.

>>108994788
i don't care about being an odd man when it still takes me less than a minute to find and install any piece of software i would ever want and have it run flawlessly, which is something loonix can never boast about even within the tight confines of their barely maintained appstore.

>>108994786
Keep using your decade out of date media player then anon, you are so smart it’s literally everyone else on g that has no idea what they’re talking about

>>108994804
>You don't have to use Ubuntu with gnome, there's a number of desktops you can download it with, from very minimal, to very feature rich
and unlike windows 7 they all work like shit and have glaring deficiencies, especially all of them but the one that the whole distro was clearly designed around.
>without doing a bunch of necessary bullshit
mint is the only distro that comes remotely close to not having unnecessary bullshit to deal with after installation to get it usable and even it takes as much effort to install as windows 7 unless you absolutely need a pc with 4x the specs you'd actually be using.

>>108994812
>downloading and running random executables on his unpatched system
russia thanks you for your service anon

>>108994829
>Keep using your decade out of date media player then anon
yes, thank you, i absolutely will.
>you are so smart it’s literally everyone else on g that has no idea
like i would care what /g/ think about what i'm doing, or some newfag updooter like (you) does.

>>108994841
>random
i'm pretty diligent about where i download my shit but even if they do get in they're welcome to net a piece of my 4gb RAM and GT440 graphics card or my 100mbps internet connection. so far over the 10+ years of using this system i've never noticed anything of the sort though.

>gnome
>XFCE
Why are retards fighting over DE's? This has already been a solved problem for years. Just use KDE Plasma.

>>108994769
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc
Wrong again. Latest release 2 days ago.

>>108994939
>Krashes

>>108994943
>latest release 2 days ago
Thanks for proving his point that it's abandonware.

>>108994939
It'll never be solved because every Linux user wants certain things out of their DE, and one DE can't make everyone happy.

>>108994943
>Forked from the original MPC-HC which hasn't been updated in 9 years in order to keep it alive
Man, can you imagine if Microsoft let you do this with Windows 7, it could live forever... oh wait

You are halfway to understanding why the free and open source life is what you're really after.

>>108994964
Except I want an operating system that werks and neither linux nor windows 10/11 work well.

btw guys do up to date browsers have anything like umatrix for them? that's something i just can't live without and its functionality goes above and beyond any security benefits that newer versions could hope to offer, imo

>>108994970
Just try Linux Mint Cinnamon Anon, you'll probably wonder where the fuck this has been this whole time, because that's what I was thinking, I fuckin used 7 until 2023 being miserable because I know the OS can't go much further and I was stuck on an old PC, when I could've had Mint the whole time and been happy for the future because my system drive can be plugged into a new computer and boot up no problem.

>>108994049
i've just checked and apparently xfce file manager has finally gotten the image/video preview feature it lacked back when i tried it last time so props to them.

>>108995042
I already tried dual booting mint years ago. I would rather kill myself than have to dual boot to use my computer. Mint was mediocre compared to 7.
Your brainwashing failed to work on me.

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>the people spamming hate against Windows 7 are literally sharteens
pottery

>>108995427
>using a desktop os made by a megacorp
>not linux
wdhmbt

>>108994356
Yeah. But they won't get into trouble. It will be obvious while investigating, anything sent or traced back is bouncing from other locations. They wouldn't be an exit node most likely.

>>108994755
>>some literally who program
newfag.

>>108988796
>Is Windows 7 still usable today
Best work as an offline station. It is recommended for /f/ oldfags and niche gamers. The people that do internet preservation is also a perfect audience for a legacy pc. On hardware, it is very good for games that does not work beyond Windows 10.

It kinda became the new Windows 2000.

>>108995485
>"hey you can't use this great but unsupported operating system because everything is dropping it and you can't even use it on a new machine"
>hate against Windows 7
What the fuck is wrong with you people? It's like this OS is your whole personality. No one said you can't use it, but it's not practical to keep using it as a main OS, run it on an old gaming box, put it in Virtualbox within something newer and usable to preserve your great software, but understand that you are not getting any support in the future.

>>108997403
According to this thread there are plenty of people and software projects developing support for it. You don't have to use Windows 7 if you don't want to.

>>108995007
>Wonder what this anon means by this
>Just discovered umatrix was dropped by chromium
lmao
if I ever needed a reason to never update my degoogled chromium there's one.
guess I should figure out a good variant of firefox for the future. I'll never use a browser without at minimum umatrix, noscript, and ubo.

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>>108997613
>You don't have to use Windows 7 if you don't want to.
I use it all the time to preserve software I loved, I don't waste my time with hacks trying to make it work, when people are using community made bullshit hacks to attempt to make things work, it stops being the just werks OS we loved, it turns like I said into a hackintosh or some bizzare Linux distribution that you have to fuck with to make it work.

>>108997661
>it turns like I said into a hackintosh or some bizzare Linux distribution that you have to fuck with to make it work.
And this is your problem how, exactly? Why does that upset you? You're being weird, anon.

>>108997661
Calm down, no need for the histrionics. Nobody is forcing you to install software that makes you mad.

>>108997986
It's not upsetting, it just boggles a little, cause these were the same people back when 7 was supported talking about how nothing works on Linux, all they do is hack shit, and now here they are basically doing hacks to make the OS even work on hardware that doesn't support it, and using compatibility layers similar to WINE to make stuff work that otherwise wouldn't work on 7 via API extensions from 10

Basically Windows 7 guys are almost lijke Arch Linux guys, but proprietary.

>>108998022
>cause these were the same people back when 7 was supported talking about how nothing works on Linux, all they do is hack shit
Nice headcanon.

>>108998041
Thats literally what happened anon, the windows 7 bros had an os they liked, people dropped support for it and now its a project of passion just like Linux is.

>>108998102
Correction: HAVE an OS they like.
Correction 2: They never talked about nothing working on Linux. At least I don't know of anyone that did that still remains on Win 7.

>>108997403
>>"hey you can't use this great but unsupported operating system"
>No one said you can't use it
what did he mean by this

>>108998102
>windows 7 bros
Are the techbro chuds in the room with us right now?

>>108998167
Can't be practically used, which is true.

>>108998229
Weird how I use it then. Oh well.

>>108998280
Good luck anon, I and I hope it can be used as long as possible, but I don't know I honestly thought 7 could be used forever, I think it had way over 30% markets hare when support dropped, and chrome did continue until 2023 and they still dropped it in spite of more people using 7 than all Linux desktop users, thays why the future is this big question mark when it comes to using 7.

>>108988796
>Do browsers still work with win7?
All (you) need is Firefox for Windows 7 fork or r3dfox

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>>108998446
>windows os needs foss to stay alive

>>108998022
>these were the same people back when 7 was supported talking about how nothing works on Linux, all they do is hack shit, and now here they are basically doing hacks to make the OS even work
I still use Windows 7 and have been building a new PC with components far past the """supported""" range in the past month or so as I procure components in this shit economy. I have not once disparaged Linux or its users and commend their effort in making work what they enjoy. Get the fuck out of here with that shitposter and falseflagging shit, faggot. You perpetuating tribalism and/or troll narratives does not help anyone including Linux users.

>>108991189
the point of “gooning” is anatomy you dolt

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>>108988796
Is this legit? https://archive.org/details/windows-7-updated-v5

>>108998599
Who knows? It's not like you have the source code for any of this shit.

Are there solutions for running local llm?

>>108994034
>tfw you lived long enough to see people become nostalgic for amd fx cpus

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>>108999037
Shit, they were kinda nostalgic for me when they came out, intel had ditched the northbridge with sandy bridge, which meant bus speed OC was dead, FX was based cause you could do a simple multiplier OC which was really all you needed, or you could stay at stock multiplier and crank the bus mhz at a time until it stopped being prime stable, or whatever you were going for, and it had supported Windows XP, Vista, based 7 onward? What a dream platform.

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>>108999120
Just got home and dug around my FX folder from the good old days, pic rel was my 24/7 because if you did 4.5 the TDP of the CPU went way up and became almost 70c on a hot day, but 4.4GHz with the RAM running at 1760MHz with a 7970 at 1GHz is probably my favorite rig of all time, my i7 8700 is 65w and fast, but it's just no fun.

>>108999202
That's cool, anon. Got more screenshots?

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>>109000815
Yes, here is her Cinebench R15 when cranked to 4.5GHz stable, I only gained 15 points over 4.4GHz and it put out more heat, but a 715 cinebench score back in 2014 when I made that rig was fantastic.

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>>109000862
This is what the rig looked like before it was retied, it wasn't perfect but I thought it was the coolest fuckin thing ever when I put it together at 19, now I like more power efficient stuff, but back then I didn't care that the CPU used 125w, or the card was a 250w TDP, I just cranked up the power limit +20, crank up the CPU voltage and sent it.

>>109000882
Sick rig, anon. Although, what is going on in that top drive slot in the bottom-right? Is... is that an SSD just chucked in there without attaching it to anything except the cables?

>>109001050
Kek it is an 850 pro refurbished drive I got in late 2018 hanging by the cables, It's still working in my i7 8700 rig to this day along with the WD10EZEX and the seagate 2TB in the picture.

>>108998102
>people dropped support for it
megacorps aren't people and it wasn't about support but about making new stuff incompatible with the old versions intentionally. they go out of their way to replace existing standards and tools just to corner and push people to buy the new stuff they wouldn't need or want otherwise.

>>109001072
>hanging by the cables
Ahahaha. Fucking knew it. If it works it works even if it's ghetto as hell, though.

>>108988796
Browsers of 2026 a shit, but simply switch to a Linux distro of your choice.
Windows is over and done.

>>109001222
The whole rig was ghetto but it was amazing, if you pulled off the other side of the case, the rig would spill it's spaghetti because the entire non modular PSU was stuffed back there, but I had never done a computer build before, so I thought it was the coolest fuckin thing ever

>>108988796
Yes, you options are Supermium, r3dfox, custom Firefox builds (official ESR 115 works for now too), Pale Moon and SeaMonkey.
In fact even on Windows XP you can still use Supermium natively and access modern internet without any significant compromises.

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I'll have to move over to linux soon, shit is starting to break. Can't play any vidya on steam now they cockblocking me.
DDR3 is all you need
>>108999202
>>109000882
nice

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>>109001783
Hell yeah anon, you should get Linux Mint, the XFCE version is super light and flies on ny FX8350 (6 cores due to shit mobo) HTPC

>>108997657
umatrix makes noscript redundant but i'd also recommend ublacklist to filter al dump websites in search to make it more usable, plus a cookie manager of your choice. i personally use the discontinued vanilla cookie manager because it reliably and cleanly works for whitelisting/cleaning cookies without unnecessary stuff like editing them or other webdev shit.

>>109001824
is there a de that can remember window size/position after closing/maximizing the window/rebooting the system on a per program basis? having all windows always be the same size popping up in the middle of the screen really ticked me off when i was using linux,

>>109001899
I don't know, but on the Cinnamon environment I have, stuff pops up in the left corner like file manager windows that memorize their size, but will pop up on the left corner or maximized if you had it maximized last time, the terminal will always pop up near the left corner and defaults to a certain size unmaximized, but web browsers seem to perfectly memorize their size and position even when rebooted, so it depends on the program.

>>109001824
wow GTX750
I have a 950, considering picking up a used 1660 Super for cheap upgrade

>>109001982
>picking up a used 1660 Super for cheap upgrade
I would totally do it, I love this 750Ti for how efficient Maxwell was at the time, but i'm probably gonna get a used 1050Ti for this rig because it can't even run my 4K TV at 60Hz, so I just end up running it at 1080p, but it's not a bad little occasional use TV computer.

>>109001951
that's what i figured, i found that some programs do this on their own but DEs don't do this natively. i like to organize my notes in notepad txt files and structure them around a certain window size so it all fits neatly into rows, columns and doesn't need scrolling almost like a freeform table. similar thing when i use an office program with a web browser, i can just open it and have it hand on a half of the screen from the previous session or minimize the window and have it pop there automatically.

how is the cinnamon's file manager? i heard it used to have some stutter/performance issues, do you find it so or it lacking some feature you'd use?

>>109002087
I like the cinnamon file manager, it's basically a gnome fork of what they use, which means it can right click and share a folder over the network, which XFCE's Thunar just can't do, if XFCE could share a folder, I'd be using it on the main rig, but when it comes to speeding up an older or low end computer, or just going fast as possible, XFCE is really incredible despite the lack of features, it's like putting Windows 7 in classic mode with all the bullshit animations turned off and then some, but on a new kernel that you can put on a new computer.

>>109002176
thunar's lack of subfolder search out of the box would be more off putting for me. i got interested in the topic yesterday so i went to research what some of those programs can and cannot do and compared that to the changes from XP to Vista/7, which included a new search functionality, variable icon sizes, more sharing and sorting options, menu droptables on top instead of the big taskbars on the side cutting into useful screenspace and so on.

linux programs have potential even if they lack a number of pretty desirable features but there's an almost universal issue with them that they lack sane defaults and look badly so they need to be extensively adjusted/modified just to get to the baseline functionality you'd expect, even if they do function well afterwards. that's why mint is such an outstanding exception - they do try to make an effort to offer a sane and easy on the eyes out of the box solution instead of just adding raw elements together like they're ticking the boxes in a spreadsheet.

>>109002303
>they do try to make an effort to offer a sane and easy on the eyes out of the box solution
It's true, that's why I keep telling Windows 7 bros to just try it, because it's shocking how good it is, and I was a hardcore Windows 7 motherfucker.

>>109002347
i've already explained my situation itt but i was the opposite, i tried linux and after fumbling with it for years i went to windows 7 and is now pretty set on it, especially since even if my current pc does break down i'd just buy a cheap mini-pc that's still capable of supporting win7 without all the driver fuckery as a replacement and stick to using it for years to come.

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>>109001783
>Can't play any vidya on steam now
Launch the exe from game files, steam overlay still works and so does multi
>game doesnt want to update the redistrubuables so it doesnt launch
go offline mode, click play, go online mode - takes like 3 seconds and it works with every single multi i've tested so far
>game doesnt start because of an update and it doesn't update(stuck on download)
close steam, get steamCMD (official from valve)
run "steamcmd.exe -overrideminos +login <your login>" in cmd or make a bat file to automate it a lil bit
login with your credentials
app_update <insert game steam id here>
exit
you can get steam id from right clicking the games in your library, properties, updates or just from steamdb itself
as of today on a 2,5 years old steam client the only thing that doesn't work is video preview on game page that you can just open on a browser

>>109002391
>steam command line
Jesus, may as well use Linux at that point, at least when you get steam from the repository, it just works, no bullshit.

>>109003003
>anon: exhales
>you: omg just use loonix bro it totally works with no bullshit go use it already use it use it
why are you like this?

>>108992043
Cope. No idea what video you're talking about. Using an outdated, well-known OS while connected to the internet is a disaster waiting to happen. Even simply using a web browser is unsafe when your OS is so outdated and not supported anymore.

>>109003026
I'm so fucked up

>>108993672
>That would be nice if you could actually maintain and do your own thing, but it's a closed source system
and? having source code does not help you add functionality.
if you actually know how software works then you can extend closed source software almost as easily as open sores crap, except with the benefit that idiots like you don't put their shitty code into the system because you believe it's impossible to modify something without the sores code

>>109003550
Delusions Anon, if people had their way with the NT source code, Windows could be usable, Microsoft's got the "best and brightest" working on 11 and it's trash.

>>109003835
You're the one that's delusional. Even if you have all the source code (and people do have the leaked XP source code), you still need to put effort into writing all the new code you want to put in. For Windows it's a lot of code to write and nobody has bothered because it's easier to just make a few DLLs to slap in here and there to patch things you don't like or add new functionality.
Open sores tards like you have this delusion that if only you had the source code for something then "the community" would magically make it better.
Guess what, all of Linux is open source and it's only gotten worse since 10 years ago. Where's the Unity desktop? Replaced with Gnomeshit. Lmao.

>>109004645
>and people do have the leaked XP source code
They don't legally own it and the Microsoft will fuck anyone in the ass legally who tries to make a distro or fork of NT 5.1 kernel or any of the components because they are the owners of the source code, just like how GNU does the licensing of free software, they use law to keep things open source by letting you fork and make modifications and distros of things as long as you release the source code of what you made.

>>109004681
Also the gnomeshit works, but you're not forced to use it, that's the beauty of open source stuff, we get what we want, Windows users take whatever the fuck Microsoft gives them, Vista too bloated for your 1GB ram computer? fuck you. Start menu all fucked up in Windows 8? Fuck you. Forced updates in Windows 10? Fuck you, you're taking it, just on and on and on with Microsoft, and Windows users can't do a goddamn thing about it.

>>109004681
>They don't legally own it and the Microsoft will fuck anyone in the ass legally who tries to make a distro or fork of NT 5.1 kernel or any of the components
More delusional bullshit
First of all it's not true, Microsoft doesn't really give a shit and that's why you can find XP source leaks on github that are months or years old (i.e. haven't been taken down).
Second of all even if it were true that still doesn't explain why most open source software sucks compared to the proprietary competitor.
>>109004696
>1GB ram computer
you can run Windows 7 on 512MB and everything works fine. the problem you'll run into is when you try to open Chrome to browse the web. It's OPEN SOURCE isn't it, why isn't there a Chrome fork that uses less than 1GB of ram? Lmfao freetards are genuinely retarded

>>109004705
>why isn't there a Chrome fork that uses less than 1GB of ram
Umm, maybe we don't control bloated ass web devs?

>>109004714
Chrome uses more memory than the entire Windows 7 OS even when the only thing you have open is a single blank tab. Stop coping.
Chromium is open source but you can't actually modify it because it will quickly become out of date and Cuckflare will start cockblocking all of your users

>>109004705
>XP source leaks on github
>haven't been taken down
it's a minefield. if you do anything interesting or useful with it, you explode.

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>>109004722
bullshit,I just opened a chromium window with no web page and it was using like 300 mb, it's not that bloated.

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>>109004747
And how do you exacly prove that anon's point about chrome eating more? There are mad lads that could boot up 7 with less ram in the entire pc than your one empty tab eats.
Sure, it requires some witchcraft and we could argue for the entire day about how useful it is but still, your favourite browser is cucked and bloated.

>>109004994
>Sure, it requires some witchcraft and we could argue for the entire day about how useful it is
So it doesn't if you're talking about a practical W7 install
I don't get it. It's like you're arguing, but you're also proving him right