• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    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.

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      Errrmmm. So is 11. I have tons. Never take them out if the packaging but I still has them.

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          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.

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        Let’s not kid ourselves. Xp is extremely dated and 7 was the better OS

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          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.

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            What if you’re attacked by a bear ? You’d be wishing you had gotten those security updates wouldn’t you

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                Driver issues were mostly the fault of the manufacturers, not Microsoft. But even then, it would be a pretty terrible experience regardless.

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                  That’s true, although I recall it being a problem with their development toolkit. The drivers were released, but didn’t work as expected.

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    I wouldn’t care either way because I doubt it’s connected to the internet out in the middle of the woods which is what would really limit what I could and would use a computer for in that situation.

    Then again, if it uses Windows 11 it might get hotter and be able to keep me from freezing to death… 🤔

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    Some low hanging fruit here (lol Apples) but Win 11 for surely my location and situation will be known afar.

    Bonus edit: To the Wincopter! A subscriber is away from employ!

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      I always keep a short length of single mode fiber optic cable with me when I’m hiking. If I get lost, I just bury it, and it less than an hour some idiot will show up in a backhoe and accidentally cut it in half.

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    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)

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    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.

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    I worked for msft. I evangelized Windows, even through 8, I found the silver lining. 11 can die in a fire.

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      Not everyone is ok with os not being yours and sending everything you do to someone else so they can better advertise to you.

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        Let’s not act like Microsoft hasn’t patched that into older Windows versions too.

        Anything older than Windows 10 is a massive security risk. And Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with a slightly worse UI and a handful of new features on top.

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        “Go with what works best for you”

        –basically how I’ve lived for the last 10 years or so

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      Back on Reddit it seemed like a standard pattern that every once in a while some particular subject would come up that was popular to dislike, and a generalized negative sentiment would wash gently across the zeitgeist for a while before eventually receding. My theory is that being part of a mob is fun, it lets you unleash righteous anger and feel validation along with the rush of endorphins, so it’s a self-perpetuating pattern.

      Here on the Fediverse it feels more like a steady lashing storm of waves. Right now Windows 11 is hated. In most threads it’s impossible to say something that is insufficiently negative about it without getting tons of downvotes.

      Oh well. If Karma was meaningless on Reddit, it’s doubly meaningless here. So I’ll just keep on saying my thing.

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      I don’t know about you, but my Outlook on survival while being an Explorer would definitely rise. I’d say I would Excell at the task at hand if I’d be pushed to the Edge like that, mark my Word!