[04-03, 15:01]RisingFury Good thing I went for 32 GB of RAM and not 16. I'm using up almost 10 right now and I'm not even being messy yet
04-03, 22:13] jgrillo2002 @RF Im due for an upgrade at the end of this year
[04-03, 22:13] jgrillo2002 Win7 is going to go kaput in 2020
[04-03, 22:14] jgrillo2002 thanks to M$' forceful to it's customers to upgrade to win 10
[04-03, 22:46] Linguofreak Meh, 10 years is a good run. It's equivalent to the span between DOS 2.0 and NT
[04-03, 22:50] Linguofreak But if you're that bent out of shape over it, join the Linux hordes.
[04-03, 22:51] Linguofreak Coincidentally, I've been using Linux as my primary OS for just about 10 years.
[04-03, 22:54] Linguofreak But, if you switch, you'll find that OSes and UIs change even without corporate avarice. It's somewhat easier to keep the stuff you like going for a long time in the open source world, but there are still just as many developers that think they know
[04-03, 22:55] Linguofreak better than everybody else trying to fix what ain't broke.
[04-03, 22:58] Linguofreak You should switch anyways, but Win7 going away isn't because MS is especially evil.
[04-03, 23:53] jgrillo2002 the problem with Win10 is the fact that it is known to be privacy invasive to the point where they take screenshots and key log your entries
[04-03, 23:53] jgrillo2002 and that is scary
[04-03, 23:53] jgrillo2002 and I will not stand for it
[05-03, 01:30] jangofett287 Good thing it does none of those things and most privacy concerns were actually incompetent tech journalists over reacting to the insider builds which are supposed to be full of instrumentation.
[05-03, 01:33] jangofett287 Oh, and windows 7 is not going to magically stop working next year, nor is it somehow going to suddenly become catastrophically insecure.
[05-03, 01:35] Linguofreak Which isn't to say that it won't become progressively more insecure as more and more vulnerabilities are discovered that MS is no longer patching, but it Win7 won't detonate the moment support ends.
[05-03, 01:39] Woo482 Don't they still let you pay a ridiculously high fee for extended support? that could be an option
[05-03, 01:45] Linguofreak There are serious security concerns with putting any proprietary code that talks to the network into a position where that code has access to important things, so I'm not going to say that privacy concerns with windows are overblown, but,
[05-03, 01:46] Linguofreak Bleah, accidentally hit enter before I was dine typing
[05-03, 01:50] Linguofreak ... but "Win10 is currently logging keystrokes and screenshots" does not properly express the very real dangers that Windows, MacOS, iOS, and even most Android systems pose to their users.
[05-03, 02:00] Artlav The thing i didn't like from my brief exposure to Win10 was having to constantly fight the system. It does whatever it wants whenever it wants regardless of what user asks.
[05-03, 02:01] Artlav Then again, i'm a down-to-the-metal kind of user, so it's not necessarily a flaw.
[05-03, 02:13] jangofett287 @Linguo Are you implying that because those OSes were made by large corporations they must be compromised in some way? I won't deny those companies have privacy concerns, but saying that their OSes are "a threat" to their users is hyperbole at best.
[05-03, 02:24] dbeachy1 Feel free to take it to the OS Wars mega thread, all
https://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=6430