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Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #114
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #10

can something like this happen for linux, I would love to see a linux desktop environment like windows 7 for windows 8 on linux, there's this: https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE

There aren’t any 1:1 recreations as far as I know, just themes of varying levels of quality. It’s a missed opportunity in my opinion, “here’s an accurate Win2K/XP/7 replica desktop that you get to keep forever” is a strong pitch for Linux for a lot of potential users. It has massive nostalgia appeal but is also practical because it signals to users that they won’t need to learn any new UI bits or behaviors and that t…

Yea I wonder about the same thing too. I understand what other people suggest when mentioning to use KDE skins but I for one would love to see an accurate replica if possible.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by nathanmills »

jaharios wrote: post #97
theanonymousone wrote: post #59

Sorry for being (slightly?) off-topic: Is there a decent way to buy this LTSC edition of Windows?

Just use the well know script to activate it and send a donation to MS or something. The margin of profit from individual keys is nothing. (Can I post the link, to the open source repo? Is it against the rules? I mean MS owns github and has no problem hosting it)

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by lproven »

jpalawaga wrote: post #132

From everything I've heard, running LTSC is not a good idea for a daily-driver pc. App support/compatibility is annoying and not guaranteed. I guess if you have a small set of unchanging apps that you use and that's all it could be a good pick. Interestingly, I hear a lot of people talk about LTSC, but few talking about their positive experiences. Is this the "I'm moving to Canada," of operating systems?

[[citation needed]]

I tried it last year, was impressed, and have now moved all my Windows partitions to it. I don't use it much (mainly Mac and Linux here) but it does all I need and more. I have not seen a single problem. Everything I've tried works fine, even installing the Windows Store and a Store app. (Which then complained my GPU was inadequate and barfed, but it ran.)

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by thr0w »

jpalawaga wrote: post #132

From everything I've heard, running LTSC is not a good idea for a daily-driver pc. App support/compatibility is annoying and not guaranteed. I guess if you have a small set of unchanging apps that you use and that's all it could be a good pick. Interestingly, I hear a lot of people talk about LTSC, but few talking about their positive experiences. Is this the "I'm moving to Canada," of operating systems?

I run it, it's good other than WSL.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by toast0 »

snozolli wrote: post #94
qsort wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, Windows 2000 is peak UI, I never liked the Frutiger Aero aesthetics. My only criticism is that it was, in a sense, too successful and elements like the taskbar and start menu got ossified and the design stagnated. Apple's F3 show all windows, F4 spotlight is far better. Windows didn't even get multiple desktops until Windows 10. I guess I like the design language but I wouldn't be prepared to give back the…

Windows didn't even get multiple desktops until Windows 10. I believe that it has always supported multiple desktops since the introduction of the NT kernel. There just wasn't any UI provided in the OS for switching. I used a Microsoft PowerToy to switch between desktops, I think all the way back to NT 4.0.

I think there was a PowerToy for virtual desktops for Windows 95? And alternate shells like litestep could do it too. Maybe that was Win98?

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by toast0 »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #73
theanonymousone wrote: post #59

Sorry for being (slightly?) off-topic: Is there a decent way to buy this LTSC edition of Windows?

> Is there a decent way to buy this LTSC edition of Windows? If you are a student or work at a supported educational institution: I think Windows 11 Education is to my knowledge basically identical to Windows 11 Enterprise (at least for Windows 10, this was the case). In these versions, you can use LTSC updates if you want.

There's two flavors of Windows for Education. One is more or less Windows Professional, the other is more or less Windows Enterprise. Both disable some stuff by default, I think the Microsoft Store and Clippy/Cortana/Copilot, maybe some other things... But you can do that with policy editor too.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

orphea wrote: post #116
hulitu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Any reason why? The 2d design of modern interfaces is terrible. Everything looks like a "Label". Scrollbars are terrible. Light gray on dark gray. And, worst of all, they need 3d acceleration to draw a bloody 2d label.

And, worst of all, they need 3d acceleration to draw a bloody 2d label Disagree it's worst of all. Why should a specialized piece of hardware not render labels? Even tosters have some GPU cores these days.

why would i want a toaster rendering anything but hot bread?

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by unethical_ban »

abanana wrote: post #134
unethical_ban wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But... Old software is often going to be insecure on the network. Are you arguing that an OS from 2013 with a browser from the same time is fine on the Web?

Who's using a browser from 2013? When I said I'm running Windows 7, I'm specifically talking about the OS, including an awful lot of updates it's had since 2013, not all software I run on it. Updates added such things as support for the later versions of TLS, several years ago. Although Google and Mozilla have dropped official W7 support from Chrome and Firefox, there are forks that add it back, which is why I'm runn…

Fair. As long as people are careful about what they're executing on the OS and it isn't arbitrarily exposed to the network it is less of a problem. My comment about browsers was due to me thinking that a lot of software stops building for old OS targets. I guess W7 is still getting modern support from vendors.

FWIW I'm running CachyOS and for the first time in my life have moved 95% away from Windows (still maintain a partition that I use every few weeks for a game that can't run on Proton). KDE 6.6 is a delight to use and everything "just works" for me, I don't have to worry about ungodly telemetry, and software fixes come in quickly.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by TheScaryOne »

ch_123 wrote: post #44
mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

For me, search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Particularly the ability to hit the Windows key and type the name of an application. Strictly speaking, this was introduced in Vista, but I feel like Windows 7 added a lot of useful polish to the Windows Vista style of UI. I otherwise agree that the older Win 2k era UI was pretty much an ideal UI. The whole "frutiger aero" look did…

>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement.

Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I miss most from 7.

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Post by xnx »

mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

You're correct. Everything in the Windows 2000 GUI served a purpose. Hard to think of any changes after that that weren't just decoration and styling.
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