8.1 was the last decent version of Windows.
Hard to tell if this sacarsm or not :-)
Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
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Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#12For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percentage of 8/7 is still very much non-trivial. Though our user base is probably skewed towards techy people.
Electron (accidentally) broke Windows 7 support last month, and as a result a number of applications broke for Windows 7 if they used that Electron version (e.g. VSCode). Lots of people complained. It was a fairly minor thing and was quickly fixed by the Electron people. My favourite comment in one of the threads about it: "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your ope…
> Windows 7 is a fine system. It works. Why "upgrade"?
Im da sheng, beratna.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#13For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percentage of 8/7 is still very much non-trivial. Though our user base is probably skewed towards techy people.
Electron (accidentally) broke Windows 7 support last month, and as a result a number of applications broke for Windows 7 if they used that Electron version (e.g. VSCode). Lots of people complained. It was a fairly minor thing and was quickly fixed by the Electron people. My favourite comment in one of the threads about it: "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your ope…
Software is a living thing, it's not a chair.
Sure, keep using it. Just don't complain when one of a million external variables your software depends on suddenly stops working and nobody cares.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#14For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percentage of 8/7 is still very much non-trivial. Though our user base is probably skewed towards techy people.
Electron (accidentally) broke Windows 7 support last month, and as a result a number of applications broke for Windows 7 if they used that Electron version (e.g. VSCode). Lots of people complained. It was a fairly minor thing and was quickly fixed by the Electron people. My favourite comment in one of the threads about it: "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your ope…
> "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your operating system gone away from SSD? Or Windows become rusty? Not. SYSTEM WORKS AS BEFORE, so please don't write stupid reasons "MS doesn't support" - nobody care of it, system works as usual and nothing prevents you from using Win7 (as I do now)."
This is just nonsense. If the user feels so strongly, why don't they maintain the relevant software themselves and find out just how easy (not) it is to maintain support for an EOL operating system? Or why don't they just stick to outdated versions of all their software, like they chose to do with their operating system? Harassing open source developers who work for free is not a sane response.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#15There goes my daily work driver. Surprisingly, it still works awesome with all lots of civil engineering softwares. 16GB DDR3 with an i7 4th Gen. There is no reason to discard it yet. Historically as soon as Microsoft dropped Win7, many of these software followed suit. This is the reason we had to abandon God number of PCs. This time out will be my PC as well than.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#168.1 was the last decent version of Windows.
The introduction of the hybrid interface in Windows 8 was the beginning of the end. The new 'Setup' versus the old Control Panel and how there's some crossover, but not complete. God, they messed things up. Yeah, I think 7 was the last good version. 8.1 was "sorry for 8.0" but the damage was done and the path forward (wonkily sideways and backwards) was set.
> The introduction of the hybrid interface in Windows 8 was the beginning of the end
What's this end your are taking about? People day that about every new version of Windows at least since the 95 release and it doesn't seem to be happening.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#178.1 was the last decent version of Windows.
7 was great. 8 was okay. 10 is great but I don't like the encroachment of ads. Why do I have an advertising ID now? Why do I have ads in my start menu and lock screen? 11 is even worse by the looks of it. The decline definitely began at 8 and has accelerated recently.
I had Win 10 Pro and now Win 11 Pro and never saw any ads. Is this something in the Home edition?
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#188.1 was the last decent version of Windows.
7 was great. 8 was okay. 10 is great but I don't like the encroachment of ads. Why do I have an advertising ID now? Why do I have ads in my start menu and lock screen? 11 is even worse by the looks of it. The decline definitely began at 8 and has accelerated recently.
> Why do I have ads in my start menu and lock screen?
Serious question. How do I enable ads on my windows 10 install? I reinstalled a while ago and don't feel like I've done anything special and windows has not shown me any ads that I am aware of.
My lockscreen is a randomized background, which I quite like, and a prompt for my user & password. Nothing else.
My start menu was shrunk in width to get rid of all of those tiles and just shows a list of software I have installed, and can be searched by typing in it. No ads, unless you count the "recently added" section listing software I installed recently.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Electron (accidentally) broke Windows 7 support last month, and as a result a number of applications broke for Windows 7 if they used that Electron version (e.g. VSCode). Lots of people complained. It was a fairly minor thing and was quickly fixed by the Electron people. My favourite comment in one of the threads about it: "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your ope…
> "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your operating system gone away from SSD? Or Windows become rusty? Not. SYSTEM WORKS AS BEFORE, so please don't write stupid reasons "MS doesn't support" - nobody care of it, system works as usual and nothing prevents you from using Win7 (as I do now)." This is just nonsense. If the user feels so strongly, why don't they maintain…
No one was being harassed. They opened an issue because they were facing a problem, which is what issues are for. The first response was "they need to not offer the update on Win 7. We don't need our environments seamlessly fucked." from some random drive-by commenter. They posted that in reply after it actually got fixed by one of the vscodium maintainers.
Re: Chrome: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023
#20For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percentage of 8/7 is still very much non-trivial. Though our user base is probably skewed towards techy people.
Electron (accidentally) broke Windows 7 support last month, and as a result a number of applications broke for Windows 7 if they used that Electron version (e.g. VSCode). Lots of people complained. It was a fairly minor thing and was quickly fixed by the Electron people. My favourite comment in one of the threads about it: "Related "MS ended support for Win7" - sorry, how it corresponds to development?! Does your ope…
Well, the older version of VSCode worked too ...