Yes I never stopped daily-driving win7 as my primary, and don't intend to. I generally do not dualboot and instead build different machines for different OSes. As such I also have a win11 build which I seldomly fire up to play some live service game. As well as a cachyos linux machine which will probably become my main daily eventually, inevitably, as linux is clearly superior to modern windows in every way. But I still prefer win7, yes, even over linux. I am not afraid of the "security" boogeyman, not just my win7 pc but also vista, xp, 2000, 98 and even 95 pc are connected to the internet and I have yet to experience any setbacks because of it. Also win7 pc has latest server 2008 r2 security rollup from january 2026 installed, as well as vxkex-next :V I just wish the software mafia would stop trying to force me off win7 just to keep using their latest bloated version

Yes, i use it a lot specially as a 3D lover for the glassless 3d laptops i have, as is the best and most compatible way to enjoy them, sometimes with a dual boot with windows 10/11 for some games and emulators that need it.

theelf wrote on 2025-09-22, 17:30:

Im still using XP, but one day will be impossible to use web browsers anymore... maybe i will update to Vista SP2 or 7.. no idea, win7 i dont like much the taskbar, is possible to mod, but anyways look a little ugly

That’s what happened to me with windows 98se back in 2016, a couple of the small number of websites I used broke hard on the final web browser I was using. I own but rarely use 2k and Windows 7 systems, also have a semi modern 10 box I rarely use.

The PCs I use now are all offline and only access web with iOS devices.

That's nice to still be able to do something with those old OS.

Now i only really use MSDOS 5 or 6.22 and Windows 10.
I have my old laptop with Windows XP which i use for some specific tasks needing a legacy parallel port or a PCMCIA port, but the OS is terribly slow and unusable, nothing like i remember from the old days. Seems to lack a lot of updates it can't get from Windows Update anymore.
My wife still use Win 7 on her PC out of lazyness but it seems to be terribly dangerous to be online with this.
I think that only MSDOS still works as it should.

Xanxi wrote on 2026-02-26, 20:52:

My wife still use Win 7 on her PC out of lazyness but it seems to be terribly dangerous to be online with this.

It really is not. "Terribly dangerous". People just get addicted to stupid exaggerations. This debate will never end.

I still use Win7 on the net a fair bit (In fact I'm entering this on a Win7 system)

IMHO, a major problem with the design of the net is "dancing bears".

People want "dancing bears" (or any other non-informative "dressing"), but never "those dancing bears - I want them to dance this way..." which is accomplished by running a program locally in your browser.

And evil people love to "run stuff" on your computer behind your back, and their main method is to "trick you" into running it.

Lots of work has been done to try and prevent them from doing "bad stuff" while allowing the most complex "dancing bear" programs that anybody could want. So we end it in this never-ending cycle of "look what I can do with the new hole I found is these insanely complicated browsers" --> "fix another one".

So, to stay safe on the net, only frequent site you trust, and don't be "clicking on cool looking new stuff" - and for those cases when I really want to try out something new, I make use of "virtual machines" which I can very easily resstore to "freshly installed" just by copying a saved hard-drive image.