Reacting to 'Why I still use Windows 7 in 2020...'

Reacting to “Why I still use Windows 7 in 2020...”. A look back on my reasons why I stayed on Windows 7 after its end of support in 2020, and how my opinions have changed over time.

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[ixycat]

Windows 7 is still the last OS which felt like it was for a PC

[jimbolove]

I'm still using windows 7, I can't overlook the beauty, simplicity, comfortable ui and privacy that is Windows 7.

[AO]

When it comes to Microsoft and releasing software, its fairly easy to notice that they seem to have this period of a few years where (say for example 10 and 11) just feel like a beta release more than a public release, and it takes them years to actually get around to releasing the feature updates that finally patch out the bugs. initially I had hated 10, and it had already been broken right as I updated on Day 1 causing me to revert in an hour, but I've been using LTSC now for the last 5 years (which isn't really meant for the consumer) but it works for me how its intended, and gives you no bloat and as much of a 7/8.1 Experience as it can bring.

[mattmatt_mm]

Windows 7 really has the most consistent UI. Look at the blending between Windows 11, 10 and 7 in Windows 11 now

[johnnguyen]

Something about Windows nowadays, it’s something that people can tolerate upgrading to, rather than crave.

Back then with Windows XP, when Vista was widely hated due to its high system requirements which made everyone stay back on XP. When Windows 7 came out, a lot of people craved to upgrading in my eyes including myself and hence, the OS was praised for (insert things Microsoft fixed).

[Phobosz]

that was 2 years ago already? man time flies…

[funwithmatteo]

Yes, another TrigrZ video! Can’t wait to watch it!

[VedantTech]

Windows 7 was the last windows version that was actually good

[YoukipsD]

I agree. Windows XP and 7 was Microsoft's best designed operating system on desktop PC IMO. I still do not like the UI of Windows 8, 10, or even 11. Since they all try to accomodate both the desktop PC and tablet, which reflects in their poorly designed UI. Windows 7 had a lot more compact UI that was fit for a desktop PC and made sense in such environment. These days, I find modern Windows OS not intuitive enough to use and would rather use macOS instead.

The problem though is, even Apple is going down the similar path in trying to merge the UI of the OS so that you get seamless transition from tablet to PC. This came at the cost of later version of macOS (especially after Big Sur) having more spaced out traffic light buttons which doesn't look good and feels like a waste of space when using desktop PC. Even their menubar looks worse now. But macOS's degradation isn't as horrible compared to the drastic change Windows had gone through, especially from windows 7 to windows 8/10/11. So overall to me at this point, it's about picking the lesser of two evils when it comes to using modern OS that's less well designed for desktop PC. And macOS for me is the preferred option.

For gaming though, you obviously still need to use Windows OS, which brings up another irony. Windows 7 was considered by many to have been the best operating system for gaming. Since with windows 7, you were able to easily turn off windows desktop composition which lead to lower input lag for your mice. This is impossible to do with later version of windows. So the only good thing about newer version of windows is their hardware compatibility. But the input lag latency just doesn't match compared to windows 7.

[innerdiscarchive]

I'm really used to Windows 10, with the live tiles, emoji support, etc. I don't even want to downgrade to Windows 7 even though Windows 10 has a lot of inconsistensies (sorry if this had bad spelling lol) e.g. very old icons, duplication of applications, charms still being in Windows 10, etc.)

[aroraakshaj]

As for the files were randomly deleted, yeah this happened to me once. I was on an old machine I used like once every 6 months. I opened it up to get some old pictures, they weren't there, so I thought I was remembering incorrectly and that they were on my dad's laptop.Like about 6 months later, I update windows on that machine and suddenly all my files were just suddenly back

[moonlightcayenne]

I’m still using Windows 8.1 on my pc from 2014 and it’s been solid ever since. I’ve barely run into any issues with programs not opening, except from the occasional crashing and long loading times that I fixed just by upgrading my ram and changing to an ssd. Other than that it’s been great for me ever since and one of the best OS’s that Microsoft has ever released. Windows 7 is still a better choice but windows 8.1 isn’t too far off. It’s definitely up there with Windows 7 for sure. I use Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 15 and I have no plans to update to Windows 11 whatsoever. Even though my device is compatible, I just feel it’s a huge downgrade from Windows 10 overall, I just don’t like it in general and will stay with Windows 10 till 2025 and maybe even further. Sure I’ll be at risk with security updates but would you rather have an OS that doesn’t function properly and completely makes your system feel unusable and slow with so many glitches or the previous version that feels like a solid rock maybe not as secure that performs as intended. I know what I’d rather want.

I really feel Microsoft and all these other companies like Apple have kind of lost their touch when it comes to releasing solid and stable software on launch; instead of pushing out something that appears to be in beta and needs a ton of QOL updates to make it feel like what it should’ve been on day 1. Great video Trigr I really had fun reliving my nostalgia remembering how much I used Windows 7 and 8.1 🤩

[wthrz]

Aero Glass is what I miss most about Windows 7. I wish they'd bring it back tbh.

[veraelphie]

I still use 7 in 2022! I have a secondary partition with 10, but use 7 as my main one, and it's even faster than my 10 one

[CoasterManOfficial]

I switched to Linux after 10, and hopped several distros before I went with Xubuntu on my main machine. I use Debian Sid (originally Debian Bookworm, which is the latest stable release, ) on an older machine of mine, and it runs very well on its limited hardware (a Dell Latitude D630 with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM.) I used to be very against Linux, as I trashed it for being an OS only used by nerds, geeks, and hackers, but I gave in and installed it anyway.

[crafteromatic]

Around 2017/18 I had to get a new laptop due to my older one just kicking the bucket, got a cheap HP one, came with windows 10, tried to install windows 7 because 82mb of vram is not the best thing ever on windows 10, it just wasn't compatible with my hardware, in 2017/18, as an alternative I been runing Linux Mint on a dual boot alongside windows 10 to get used to it because I knew that w10 just wasn't gonna get any lighter and I'll had to keep using this machine for a few too many years.

2020 comes around, I don't know what did microsoft break but w10 would just break/insta freeze with a weird screen tearing, my old install broke, if I tried to install it again with a fresh drive it would do the same and just die after boot leaving my laptop frozen and the screen weird, running it in a vm would also crash my system, they did fixed it like a year later, but by that point I had been using linux for a while, tried to go back but I was still using a 1tb hdd, it ran everything just fine, never had many issues, W7 and 8.1 would run pretty good with not a lot of "slowness", just like in Linux, but windows 10, that thing dragged my hdd through the dirt like a little bitch, I was so bad it corrupted its own install, it was probably the windows antivirus which was using 100% of cpu and disk, but that alongside locking me out for ours for "safety" because I rebooted "way too much".

I dream for the Windows 7 source code to get one day leaked so we get somewhat opensource W7 systems, hell, I'll take Vista, I loved that ui, but fuck, my pc that came with w10 just can't handle it, not a bit.

[foxyloon]

As someone who did IT support in the Windows Vista/7 era, I frankly do not miss that OS from a sysadmin perspective. Yes, 7 fixed a ton of issues with Vista and was a solid user experience, but it was still an iteration of Vista under the hood. Everything from installing updates/apps, driver issues, even doing netboot deployments was like pulling teeth when things didn't work. Times that by 50 workstations in an office and my frustration only grew. Windows 8/10 had a ton of nice under-the-hood improvements that made it much easier to deploy, maintain and is more widely supported on newer machines.

I find it pretty ironic how the later versions of Windows improved in functionality but regressed in the overall user experience department. Although my belief is that an OS is an utilitarian tool that shouldn't be bloated with flashy UIs and unnecessary software to begin with, I can acknowledge that Aero is still gorgeous looking. Aero was also known for consuming a ton of resources to run, especially on older hardware of the time, and I've always seen it as unnecessary bloat. That's why I rmuch prefer the minimalist design of Windows 10 and recent MacOS revisions. Less distractions, less bloat.

The only reason Microsoft keeps including the legacy versions of said apps is for backwards compatibility reasons. Since a lot of their corporate clients spent millions on making hand-coded software using Microsoft's garbage proprietary solutions, Microsoft essentially painted themselves into a corner when those corporate clients couldn't realistically replace those software solutions when support ended. That's why Windows still has remnants of Windows NT deep in the kernel, and also a ton of baked-in legacy apps that nobody else realistically uses anymore. It's for those megacorp clients who have no choice but to keep relying on deprecated software. Apparently Windows 11 is a departure from all this, their first attempt to re-make Windows from scratch, which is why it seems like that OS has taken several steps back in functionality and usability.

[rayberger]

I love windows 7, any files that I want to remain secure I encrypt them using the installed encryption feature. Then there is the Windows Media Center, This is one reason I keep my windows 7 large screen HP laptop, For movies and videos. I am still getting security updates as of Dec 29th, 2022 using Microsoft Security Essentials. I guess that however is about to end very soon. I have never been hacked to this date. If I ever do decide to retire my windows 7 Ultimate laptop, I will use it as a media center. Thank you for your video.

[methanosian-ne]

When it comes to Microsoft hearing other people's opinion, they just go blank completely blank, Windows 7 probably has the best UI and is pretty fast and now looking at 10 and 11, 7 is still OP and to mention it gives you no bloat and is consistent and doesn't force you with updates... (P.S help me reach 10 likes on this comment teehee)

[TECHNIKVERBOT]

7:05 Considering also that recent rumours suggest that MS is moving back to a traditional three year release schedule for major Windows releases and the period between the two builds would be spanned by shipping features to the stable build of Win 11 22H2 through regular cumulative updates called „Moments“ (of which 2 already released)

and the fact it‘s possible in the first place because they decoupled parts of the interface and components from the actual OS, so they can be modified independently w/o requiring a full build upgrade

I see it as a much much needed improvement to previous update servicing scheme