I don’t get why people prefer to go to an unsafe version of windows instead of trying Linux. Nowadays there is many friendly distro.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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They feel more at home with it. And they shouldn't be told how to use anything. Windows NT, were it cleared from all the mess, would be a very fine OS.
Or maybe something like AmigaOS or Haiku.
It's a demand that Linux doesn't fulfill, some sort of rebirth of Amiga could.
Lack of education and training really.
I only knew of Linux because I saw some dude use Linux in 2012. And then a few years later, I finally decided to try it out as it was easier for work. After a lot of false starts, I finally started switching around 2021.
Going to imagine most people are the same - get experience from it and then have a reason to use it daily.
- Windows 7 was used to browse more web pages on a subset of sites that use the Statcounter plugin, and mostly in one area of the world.
But that doesn't make a good headline.
Could it be that something is spoofing a Win7 signature?
I personally just edited the registry to stop my Win10 upgrading to 11. If it fails, it's Manjaro time.
Manjaro might not be the best starting point tbh. So many better choices.
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I think that it's a possibility for the rest of the world.
Still, it's unusual for that to happen.
Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.
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Its so dumb. Linux is the only way to actually get out from under the thumb of Microsoft and its so easy these days to switch.
Linux is the only way to actually get out from under the thumb of Microsoft
Aside from macos, bsd, ChromeOS, android, iOS, and templeos, sure.
I dont think being under the thumb of Google or Apple is any better. And Linux is just a much better choice than bsd for almost all people. That being said, I was impressed to learn that hacker news run their entire site on a single server with openbsd. :)
A friend of mine was still on win7 and just recently made the switch to linux. In the end the issue was that most of the software stopped working.
I hated when software didn't work on Windows. After switching to Linux my mouse, keyboard, monitor, hard drive, OS, and software don't work 😂
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It’s okay, Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows you’ll need!!!
It was. Linux Mint has been beautiful since I switched last year. Certainly nicer than windows.
My laptop runs so much better now with Mint after getting rid of windows
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Possibly from people booting up 15 year old laptops to see if they‘re still running so they can install linux on them before trying it on the big machine. Yes, this is my made up narrative but I believe that more than in a Win7 comeback.
JFC I wish I could go back to win 7, I had to get win 11 and I've never hated an os like this in my life. My favorite part is how I have no control over it changing the things I actually use. No sorry, my favorite part is how right around the time an update is about to come out my windows starts crashing and locking up. It's amazing.
If the world weren't networked the way it is now (I'm not against global connectivity as a thing, just how it works now), any kind of old software and hardware could be used. Because security and things breaking without the Internet are the main reasons why people update.
win7, my beloved. that uxtheme.dll got patched so many times...
Nobody should be using old versions of Windows that no longer get security updates. Either switch to Linux and install all of the latest security updates, or enable the coming year of security updates on Windows 10, or run Windows 11.
Agree for a main computer but there's no risk when using Windows 7 or XP on an offline machine.
If it were offline machines, then they wouldn't be on these statistics
Fair point, I guess some people might want to do that to play old games or something like that.
They should make a Windows version called Windows 10P which is the same as Windows 10 but only the bare-bones necessities and no extra crap or required online services, and sell it for $59.99 (seeing that Windows is already de facto freeware). That's probably an order of magnitude than what they make from intrusive advertising anyway to a single user over the lifespan of a computer.
How about a Win 7 Remaster? Since there's been a lot of them recently.
This already exists, and it doesn't cost $60. What you want is the Windows 10 IoT LTSC Edition.
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Why do you keep saying that? Lol
I don't know, but I find myself mentioning it often enough I feel like somebody ought to be paying me for it.
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No way they will do that. The value for microsoft these days is in harvesting their victims info and forcing them in to their walled garden.
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Year of the Windows 7 Desktop?!
Don't have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.
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within the past month? what all these people in Asia suddenly found a stockpile of machines with Win7 on them and all, collectively, decided "yeah lets just use these"?
I don't buy it.
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I still have my old Win7 pro disk with unlimited installs :p
I didn't think i would ever use it, but I'm also not ever gonna use win11, so maybe upgrading from 10 to 7 will be my plan for my windows needs if they are both gonna be insecure anyway.
7 is just the best OS Microsoft has made, it's been downhill since.
It's almost as if there's a demand for meat and potatoes OS.
This is almost certainly a sampling error.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202408-202509
Win7 grows in Singapore from <2% to 92% within two months. All other asian countries stay the same. Yeah, that's a sampling error.
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One caveat here: Statcounter provides no explanation for this unusual surge, so these figures should be treated with a certain amount of skepticism. Could there be a measurement error involved?*
A bot farm changed their spoofing to show Windows 7 by accident. /s. But it would be funny if that's what happened
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