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Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.

I run into this a bit - it can be a problem or not depending. I use a Linux laptop for development, and even have a Windows XP virtualbox for a workflow program that I can't get to run on newer Windows OSs - it's needed for legacy apps.

Using Windows 7 on a PC I can only use a version 3 series version of GnuCash, not the latest version 4 release, which is available to Windows 10, but my Linux distro (OpenSuse) only has the version 3 series of GnuCash. So I can gpg the GnuCash xml file and share the accounting file across my machines using github.

Cheers

I use Windows 7 on my 2012 desktop, Mac on my laptops, and Linux for some of my own personal development. At this point, my desktop is a glorified web browser but I still mainly use that because I like it the best. Since I don't play games on my computers, I've yet to find a reason to switch either my hardware or software on my Windows system.

Is there really a hard incompatibility or are the official binaries just not compiled with Windows 7 as a target?

On the Mac side, the official Python 3.9 binaries only support Mavericks and above, but MacPorts has builds for Tiger, which predates Windows Vista.

Edit: And for kicks I even just pulled out my Tiger VM to confirm. `python39` builds and runs fine.

I think he was joking. Windows 7 is EOL

Probably he is not.

I use Windows 7 myself. I hated Windows 10, the telemetry, ads, candy crush, random reboots, updates that erase settings and so on are just crazy, and then seemly it often goes out of it's way to break important software.

> I use Windows 7 myself. I hated Windows 10, the telemetry

https://betanews.com/2019/07/11/microsoft-adds-telemetry-win...

that's why i always disabled auto security updates until I vet all of them

there are people on this cursed earth who roll with windows 2000 on prod, you know?

Probably the last good version of Windows. I have fond memories of Windows 2000. Everything after it, not so much.

The last good version of Windows? The last good version of Windows was CP/M.

I don't trust those new-fangled operating systems.

Until recently, we had a CNC lathe at work powered by a VAXstation 3100 running (if memory serves) VAX/VMS 5.3... (Released in the late eighties)

If you have a VT420 can I buy it? DM me.

I wanted to keep my riced Windows 7 installation until software incompatibility forced me off of it.

I really believe that, UX-wise, Windows 7 was the high point.

> I really believe that, UX-wise, Windows 7 was the high point.

Yup, definitely.

I still use Windows 7 as well.

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