Guys, please stay on-topic, this thread is about why you use it, not why not.

 

Hahaha, my bad, I switched from win95 to win7 about 10 years ago, and then indeed around that time in 2016 I switched to Win10 excusez moi!

 

best Windows was win98 back then. After it got worse and heavy but time changes and I am now on win 10. Wont upgrade until it requires to work with new hardware. As long as its not a must I will stick with win 10. So far I have classic shell installed. It looks like win7 start menu etc. Deaktivated everything bloating it. Works well for years now and its definetly faster than win7 and no bsod so far.

 

My Win7 machine is still running fine. Especially since I changed the main drive to a SSD it runs fast enough for my purposes. It would take me a lot of effort to install Win10 on this machine, since I cannot simply install it on top of the existing Win7 (I would have to free up a lot of space from my main drive, which is already full).

Buying a new machine is not an option right now financially. So its not dogmatic, but pragmatic reasons why I stick with Win7.

I encounter more and more audio software that won't run on Win7 though. A recent one was the Soundpaint sample playback engine. The recent Native Instruments stuff won't run. etc

 

its an operating system that was simply excellent for audio, and excellent for tweaking the o:s manually, i love win 7,
It surpasses win 10 inmho!! despite the fact im on win 10 now, Win 7 is arguably the best o:s, for audio, "but shoot forward to 2023">>
theres quite a few plugs i use that wont run on win 7 hence the switch to v 10
In an ideal world if win 7 was still able to run all my plugs i would switch back to it with no hesitation whatsoever

 

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Same here. But the fact that some of the newer plugins won't run can also be beneficial. Makes us less prone to buying / installing redundant plugins that are covered by what we already got. I'm perfectly convinced that you can handle all your composing, mixing and production duties with plugins from the Win7-compatible era (I guess every plugin that came out 3 years ago and earlier).

 

Spot on.

 

I still have Windows 7 32 bit on my old shitty laptop. The CPU and memory cannot handle more and that is the only reason why it is still on there.

 

Launch any app??
Not really try launch a bunch of old midi programs good luck

 

Because Samplitude Pro X7 Suite works beautifully on it, and I really don't need much to be happy

 

It's old?
Nah. I've got socks that are older than win7...
And more importantly I have hardware that doesn't have drivers for newer OSs that I still want to use to make music. So I do.
But
I also have computers with more modern OSs on which music is made.
As the saying goes:
Horses for Courses

 

win 7 here, im also using the windows classic theme. it feels so minimal, nostalgic and ergonomic.

i feel that once i leave it i will go straight into macintosh. dont know why. guess i dont like win10-11. i love win 7.

 

- my old audio interface has lower latency on W7 (there are actually no officially supported drivers for W10 or 11)
- 'cause I just like more the appearance and feel of W7
- my audio interface is PCI and i really don't like the idea to switch to USB (the newer pci-e RME interfaces are too expensive for me)

sadly, I was "forced" to install W10 for other reasons (video/photo camera software support, some Adobe apps, and a few plugins and DAWs that I like to use from time to time), so I have both, but still like much more W7

btw I'm on i7 3770k, 32 GB DDR3, GTX 1080, ASUS P8Z77-V PRO... the hardware is just not made with W10 in mind.
W7 and Linux are the obvious choices for me, and besides, I'm getting too old to cope with all that online sh*t nowadays
I turn on my PC just to play a few tunes from time to time on my guitars, retouch a few photos or to see periodically how low we fallen on bitchute or similar platforms .

 

Thanks for this - best laugh I've had in ages!

 

@pcdocstl
...really ?!?
not sure how and why, but I'm glad I made you happy

 

If I am understanding correctly you're stating Windows 7 was part of the 1990's? I donut think so. WinXP was barely released in 2001. And there are yet two later WIN versions to go before Win7 rollout.

 

Seriously? If you're running adequate fire-walling, daily updated A/V and/or malware preventatives you could be running windoze 95 and never have an issue. It's THIS kind of brainwashed thinking that keeps the industry planned obsolescence scam alive and well. Not doing stupid things on the net like opening executable mail attachments, surfing on dubious websites, downloading garbage from un-trusted sources and not scanning them - ALL this type of behavior will get you, who probably runs an out of the the box non-optimized fully SUPPORTED current OS, is virus'ed and/or hacked, or worse.

If folks actually still think that an OS that opt's into "patch tuesday" is their only salvation (because it's what the industry wants you to believe) between life and death on the internet then it's a sad day for computer geeks everywhere... I have been running secured WIN7 machines on the net for as long as WIN7 has been in existence (14-15+ years now). Never have run win update, do NOT use MS a/v or Firewall (I have my own security measures in place). Any updates that were applied were applied manually from a roll-up and only ones that were VERIFIED security issues, which equates to a small handful in 14+ years of existence.

For the industry brainwashed humans out there, get this thru your heads - 99% of the junk that transpires on patch tuesday is telemetry/data exchange, reverse engineering of users efforts at keeping their privacy intact, and ad/garbage-ware that will break more than it would ever fix.

 

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Absolutely agree. I have many customers for many years are still running Windows 7 with no security problems. Some have me round once a year to clean up accumulated junk, others don't. Once set up properly, absolutely no difference to Windows 10/11 customers in terms of security. I'm only moving them over to Windows 10 LTSC now because Chrome is nagging them it won't update. (Most sites are designed around Chrome so that's what I recommend, not that I use or like it myself).

Also, I have had to deal with many problems every bit as bad as a security breach or virus, purely from Windows 10 updates themselves.

Its the whole philosophy change since 7: They weren't content with a copyright/IP monopoly that got them on every desktop. They have gradually dropped superficial respect for users and privacy, and covered that up with narrative brainwashing as mega advertisers and industry influencers, state partners, not to mention lobbyists. Now they openly want to own users, their lives, their data, their speech, their location, their biometrics; total dependance on the MS "cloud" services - milking them with rent for everything - and just push changes to "their" systems whether we like it or not. Right now it seems partly optional and very convenient with easy monthly payments, but imagine being locked in to that with no way out, which is exactly what they want.

 

I use chrome + FF. I froze BOTH of them about 3-4 years ago. As in the updaters within either of them are completely disabled. They are updated regularly by a couple of third party apps with passive fixes for various security/malware/spyware flaws and that's it. nary an issue, nary a problem.

Absolutely correct.

Which is why we now have stripped down and workable ISO images of Win10 & 11 and we have the KMS_VL activation scripts. Folks will only put up with so much crap before taking matters into their own hands to find a solution that keeps their privacy safe from the prying eyes of who knows what.

 

Last edited: May 9, 2023