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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

11? Fuck that, I'm not sidegrading to 8.

I ain't even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.

[–] hameru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it insecure to run such an old version tho? (Since it stopped recieving updates years ago)

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, security doesn't matter for a media device like that. The exposure is so minimal that it might as well not exist.

Hell, considering I really only use it to pirate shit maybe once a month nowadays, my main desktop PC isn't even on enough to matter; I could keep any old OS on it.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why not run a minimal distribution like Alpine if you're just torrenting?

[–] Insanelysick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is connected to your router it’s a point of ingress.

[–] Fed@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The risk of getting a attack via the router is very low these days

[–] ech0@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Lol! You're an idiot

[–] catlover@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

windows 8 made me switch to linux

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been forced to install Windows 10 on my brand new build because it doesn't support W7.

But Steam is also dropping W7 support by the end of this year anyway. Yes, there are native Linux games on Steam and there's also Proton and WINE, but it's not a 100% solution.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I was hyped for Baldur's gate 3, and I may still end up getting it, but I'd have to upgrade too much hardware to play it, and there's really no other games that I'm interested in.

Musicbee is the main reason I'm still running 7 on that pc rather than some flavor of linux. If it ever gets a port, or actually starts working right via wine, bye bye windows for me.