In a twisted sense, it will be a relief when January 2020 comes around and Windows 7 officially becomes "unsupported". Meaning no more updates.
Yeah, that means it will get increasingly risky to use it for web surfing.
But the fact that after many years of pushing Windows 10 down everyone's throat, Win7 still has half of the Windows user base, means that a heck of a lot of people are more than willing to take that risk.
Yeah, that means it will get increasingly risky to use it for web surfing.
But the fact that after many years of pushing Windows 10 down everyone's throat, Win7 still has half of the Windows user base, means that a heck of a lot of people are more than willing to take that risk.
Not sure I would want to continue using Win 7 for any bank or investment account when the security patches stop.
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That’s when a dual boot scenario makes sense- use linux for web browsing, and then boot into windows 7 only to do windows only programs and games, and for the most part stay off the Internet with windows- or only go to known good sites with it- and leave the other sites to the linux os- or run windows with a virtual machine with linux on it as a kind of sandbox thing- but that would mean looking into securing the VM so that viruses don’t jump to the windows environment easily-
I prefer the dual boot method- it’s a little more inconvenient, but i got it down to a system where durign the day I do all my browsing on linux, then later at night boot into windows to play my online racing game, or use photoshop or play windows only games offline. I probably should run it all in a sandbox environment- i might look into that-