Neither. I go into the woods to unplug.
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Mom: We have mosquitoes at home.
Since the woods has not internet, 11. No ads, no tracking. Do need the old context menus and a few things before I head out though.
Sorry, but you can’t even log in without Internet.
Really? LOL
I’m on Windows for work but I login to a Linux box to do any work within the first five minutes
def win 7
No question.
And that’s only because XP wasn’t a given option.
Same applies to Vista despite being much closet to Windows 7 than XP.
But I bet it’s this way only because nobody gave a shit about Vista. I was the only person who gave a shit about it.
Vista was hot garbage. That shit took ~1.5 GB of RAM to boot. In 2007. Total trash. Windows 7 was what Vista should have been. All of the features with less overhead.
Computers did take the take to adapt to the new software requirements, not to mention the two service packs that were released. By the time that happened, Vista became really good, but nobody cared because Windows 7 was RIGHT around the corner.
And yeah, if Vista ran poorly on that Pentium 4 thing, then I would suspect 7 would run poorly on it as well. Hell, I tried a virtual machine that barely met the requirements for Windows 7, installed Vista on it, and as expected, it ran very poorly. I tried Windows 7 on it. Same thing, it ran very poorly.
XP had the exact same criticisms when it came out in 2001. Again, computers had time to adapt, and as a result, people started loving XP, and I mean they started LOVING it, A LOT.
I’m one of those people. I ran XP SP3 straight through the rise and fall of Vista, and into the first few years of Win 7. I did the same thing with Win 98 and skipped ME/2000. The driver issues were insane with those releases. Microsoft seemed to have an “every other” rule with OS release quality.
Driver issues were mostly the fault of the manufacturers, not Microsoft. But even then, it would be a pretty terrible experience regardless.
That’s true, although I recall it being a problem with their development toolkit. The drivers were released, but didn’t work as expected.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Xp is extremely dated and 7 was the better OS
Better in terms of features, absolutely. XP SP3 was a more stable OS. Only downside is lack of security updates, which wouldn’t matter much in the woods.
What if you’re attacked by a bear ? You’d be wishing you had gotten those security updates wouldn’t you
7
Windows 11. Because Windows 7 ate Windows 9.
11 easily. Not everyone hates. It personally I think it’s worth it for AutoHDR alone. And the simplified start menu makes a lot of sense once you put the start button back where it goes and block ads in the menu.
Windows 7, maybe I could even download iTunes 10 and get my old music library back
11, so that when I outrun the bear, it’ll be 11 who dies, while 7 is waiting for me at home
Windows 7 got Solitaire so probably that
I’m sorry everyone… but I’ll choose Windows 11… I just can’t leave without an AI assistant in my computer. I mean, yeah, I can always just open ChatGPT on a browser… but that just… isn’t the same. Also that Recall thing is great, I love these automatic screenshots that are totally not sent to Microsoft. This thing is extremely convenient, because pressing the Print Screen key is too hard for me. Lastly, I paid for the whole computer, I want my OS to use all the resources it can. Fuck you, Linux and Windows 7 evangelists! Your OS is clearly not superior.
(guess i made it clear that i haven’t used windows in a while lol)
Duh, I’d rather be stuck with Vista.
But since it’s not even an option, I would choose Windows 7 by default. Although 8.1 wasn’t really THAT bad, I just think it will be treated exactly the same as 7 in terms of software support, similarly to how programs dropped support for Vista at the same time they did for XP.
Everyone in this thread is missing that this is just a copy of the OS. OP said nothing about having a computer, or internet, or electricity.
I’ll take Windows 7 because it was still issued on DVD which would be useful as a signal mirror for getting rescued.
Errrmmm. So is 11. I have tons. Never take them out if the packaging but I still has them.
Oh, really? I thought they were distributing on USB drives these days. Are they OEM copies?
They may be OEM. I don’t really recall. I just buy the cheapest Pros from my local computer shop.
I believe you can DvD, USB, or none. But don’t quote me on that.
I worked for msft. I evangelized Windows, even through 8, I found the silver lining. 11 can die in a fire.
Grew up on windows 7. It was all I needed and was perfect. I don’t need anything else. I didn’t even want 10 but 10 is…ok I guess. I def don’t want 11 though.
Win 7, because I can use it as bargain to trade with locals who help me to get out of the forest and back to civilisation. No one would be interested in Win 11 so that choice is obvious.
