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In reply to the discussion: All Good Things Must End... [View all]TygrBright
(20,759 posts)Win7 is working just fine and that's not the problem.
The problem is the hardware components that keep dying, and the market has moved way beyond the configurations that would allow me to sub in something else that will work reliably and for a long time with all the other hardware, and still run W7.
It's not *just* the "run W7" part. it's the 'will it play nicely with the graphics card and the SSD that hosts the OS and the rest of the machine.
I know it's possible to un-f**k W10 up to a point (although that is getting less true with their latest stunt of the un-deletable browser requirement) but you can NOT delete Cortana, and all too many other bits of intrusive and execrescent junk are either only partially decommissionable, or require an awful lot of fiddling to stand down.
I will end up on it eventually, probably right before MS decides to herd everyone on to its next "improved" OS.
I don't mind them evolving, I certainly don't have anything against them creating new and wonderful stuff, I just mind them making it mandatory for us to be dragged along with them.
If I could find a mobo with the chipset and config to slide into the system and it only ran W10, I'd probably go with it. But as far as I can tell, there's no such critter.
sadly,
Bright