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Originally Posted by aanker
On my next computer, my plan is to find/build a decent (old school) gaming rig, put in a blank hard drive after getting and burning the necessary drivers the future computer needs, and install Win 7 on it.
That $70.00 bucks I spent a few months ago seems worthwhile after reading these and other posts. The disk is ready and waiting.
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Good plan, so did I just two weeks ago. Just be sure you do as I recommended earlier and update Win7 to SP1 standard via a patch collection from a non-MS source, then keep that rig isolated from the web as far as possible. If you still do Windows 7 updates then (for as long as they are still coming), do them always manually only, never automatically, and hand-select them with time delay, after investigating their numbers. MS abuses more and more of these "harmnless" updates as carriers for infesting your W7 with W10 related stuff and spyware. For your surfing needs, go dual boot and Linux. Same regarding all non-game software, as long as you find alternatives for Windows software under Linux. For image editing, there is Gimp (and some more), for office work and text editing, there is Libre Office (which i like more than Open Office). As long as you are no specialised pro using some specialised software, you do not need Windows. Heck even most Windows servers I think are running under Linux. Ordinary private users just writing letters, ordering online, surfing internet newspapers, and sorting their photos, also do not need Windows. --- In the end, W10 is a pest with pre-announcement. We could have seen it coming, if only we would have wanted to see it. And some of us - a minority - have. People never cared for MS getting worse and worse, and so helped MS to get strong enough to now dominate an almost monopolised market. Those people not having been critical - get what they deserve with W10. If you help to build monopoles like this, even if you just do not care fopr them getting built, do not complain if you get bitten by it later on. I am all for capitalism, but even although capitalism seems to have an inbuild tendency for monopole-building, monopoles are the death of capitalism. Like life has a tendency to get old, weak, ill, and finally dies. We cannot avoid it, still we better fight against it: true for death, true for monopoles. And always comes new life, and hopefully always monopoles get destroyed sooner or later - if needed: even by force and violence. But those people who today say they do not care about W10, will be the same who also do not mind to get chips transplanted under their skin or bar codes printed into their necks. Always assuming the best and boastign with their "optimism", they are invulnerable to any historically precedent serving as an exmaple for how evil and criminal monpopolists and governments can become - and sooner or later always seem to become for sure.