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I'm NEVER moving away from Windows 7.
Please for the love of god move off windows 7 to a secure OS like Linux or BSD
Windows 3.1 was what I cut my teeth on
I don't understand linux. I have a raspberry pi that I haven't used in 2 years because I did an update all, which caused the fan to stop working. Which in turn mezns I can't use the thing, for fear it overheats. But I spent 20 days all day every day, just trying to figure out how to turn the fan on.
If I can't turn the fan on, and reinstalled the fan countless times, pouring hundreds of hours into something so simple, I'm not going to understand the OS.
On the opposite end of that, no way in hell I'm upgrading to windows 10 or 11.
And I'm not rich enough for a mac.
So, Windows 7 forever!
Why not back up your win 7 installation and try a different Linux variant? Or even just fuck around with Linux in dual boot/vm before transitioning? I’d have to imagine that’d be preferable to either not using the internet or risking every device on the same network it’s connected to. I swear I read an article where fresh win10 installs were getting infected within minutes of connecting to the net. Let alone 7.
About 10 years ago I remember I had to turn off the firewall to do something. To this day, I can't remember if I ever even turned it back on. And have never checked. Oddly enough, the only website that DOESN'T work on that computer, is Lemmy. Which I guess is because I haven't updated the browser since before covid.
If you're trolling these cats you're doing a fantastic job. I hope youre not tho. I love picturing what this computer looks like
It's a little dusty because I lost the side plate to the case YEARS ago.
And the desktop has icons overflowing into display #2.
She's Beautiful. Thank you.
Raspberry pi is not going to be representative of running something like Linux Mint on an x86 machine. Raspberry pi is a unique piece of hardware that not all OSes are going to test against. As the other poster said, there are things you can do to ease yourself into the transition. But I'm... Baffled by your lackadaisical attitude towards updates. Your browser not being updated since before covid makes me hope to god you're not downloading any media files or logging into any websites
Is your computer networked? If so, that's a bad idea
I hope your firewall is up to scratch.
For all I know it might be turned off. From like 10 years ago.
You're letting the internet bareback you.
Eh, it hasn't caused issues yet.
Your PC could be part of a botnet that sends phishing mails, mine crypto and send all your keystrokes to Irkutsk, without you noticing.
I would hope they're protected by the router firewall