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And Windows 7 is as old as Ubuntu 9.04. It's about as obsolete as it gets. It's time to let it go, man.

Problem is, there's still no reasonable alternative if you need to run Windows software. Windows 7 is the last stand of Windows that doesn't actively hate and work against the user, so there are some very real reasons to stick with it.

Hopefully when Windows 7 "extended support" runs out, ReactOS will be able to run Photoshop and Cubase so there is an escape route for those of us who still need to run legacy Windows applications. More likely it'll be Windows 7 with GPU passthrough in a sandboxed VM with no Internet connection forever.




What's so unreasonable about Windows 10 that you prefer to suffer all that pain and get less out of your hardware?


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