Well first off, Nappy New Year to everyone! 
So what's going on?! - How come we don't have an OS thread for this year?
Did everyone just move to using phones? Windows 11 killed everything? 
Or perhaps now that some of us have the Covid vaccines, I guess M$ is already running in our bodies so we don't really need computers anymore, right? 
(OK, I probably better not open that can of worms here. 
)
Anyways, ya'll know the drill: vote what OS you're running on your "main" PC.
I know that might be tricky for all of us, since I'm sure everyone is running multiple PCs for various different reasons (and often times with different OSes too) - be it work, leisure, hobby, and etc. In regards to work, I imagine almost anyone with an office-issued computer is probably running Windows 10... so not sure if that should be considered as a "main" PC... but up to anyone to decide for themselves.
Would be interesting to see how Windows 11 is going to impact the vote... and how many Win7 "hold-outs" are still remaining.
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I'll start the vote with a tally for Legacy Windows - in my case, Windows XP.
Yes, I'm still able to 'putter 
on it, despite being extremely outdated at this point. Considering my main use has been looking up datasheets, organizing pictures and music (mp3/mp4), email, tax/document prep, and paying for bills, the trusty ol' Optiplex 170L is still capable for those tasks. Alas, the Mypal browser has really been a godsend! If all I had to use was Firefox ESR, I would have ditched XP for online use already... or at least mostly (hint: badcaps.net still runs wonderfully fast on Opera 12.18.) I imagine with a much more powerful CPU - particularly something with really good single core performance - may even make it possible to use on Youtube and similar. That's actually the plan for me... or has been for the last 2 years, but for some reason I'm too lazy to tear away this old Pentium 4 "beast". Next year (January of 2023) would make it 10 years since commissioning it as my main PC. And it's a 17-year-old machine already! Let's see if them new Ryzens and 12th gen Intels can make it that long.
Also, in regards to "Legacy Windows" - I'm aware that Windows 7 actually belongs to that category too now. However, the fact that it's still supported by most modern browsers, that you can still install it on a good number of new PCs (if needed/wanted), and that some (very very few?) organizations still haven't switched to 10... I think we can give it another year or so before including it into the Legacy list, which comprises mostly of truly "outdated" OSes, as you can see.
So what's going on?! - How come we don't have an OS thread for this year?
Did everyone just move to using phones? Windows 11 killed everything? Or perhaps now that some of us have the Covid vaccines, I guess M$ is already running in our bodies so we don't really need computers anymore, right? (OK, I probably better not open that can of worms here. )Anyways, ya'll know the drill: vote what OS you're running on your "main" PC.
I know that might be tricky for all of us, since I'm sure everyone is running multiple PCs for various different reasons (and often times with different OSes too) - be it work, leisure, hobby, and etc. In regards to work, I imagine almost anyone with an office-issued computer is probably running Windows 10... so not sure if that should be considered as a "main" PC... but up to anyone to decide for themselves.
Would be interesting to see how Windows 11 is going to impact the vote... and how many Win7 "hold-outs" are still remaining.
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I'll start the vote with a tally for Legacy Windows - in my case, Windows XP.
Yes, I'm still able to 'putter on it, despite being extremely outdated at this point. Considering my main use has been looking up datasheets, organizing pictures and music (mp3/mp4), email, tax/document prep, and paying for bills, the trusty ol' Optiplex 170L is still capable for those tasks. Alas, the Mypal browser has really been a godsend! If all I had to use was Firefox ESR, I would have ditched XP for online use already... or at least mostly (hint: badcaps.net still runs wonderfully fast on Opera 12.18.) I imagine with a much more powerful CPU - particularly something with really good single core performance - may even make it possible to use on Youtube and similar. That's actually the plan for me... or has been for the last 2 years, but for some reason I'm too lazy to tear away this old Pentium 4 "beast". Next year (January of 2023) would make it 10 years since commissioning it as my main PC. And it's a 17-year-old machine already! Let's see if them new Ryzens and 12th gen Intels can make it that long. Also, in regards to "Legacy Windows" - I'm aware that Windows 7 actually belongs to that category too now. However, the fact that it's still supported by most modern browsers, that you can still install it on a good number of new PCs (if needed/wanted), and that some (very very few?) organizations still haven't switched to 10... I think we can give it another year or so before including it into the Legacy list, which comprises mostly of truly "outdated" OSes, as you can see.
) ... at least on the surface, those seem to be the few big changes (but always beware of what's lurking beneath the surface! 
)
) Thus I did a complete reset on the laptop and those issues disappeared. But it was still miserably slow. Went and grabbed the cheapest 120 GB SSD at Micro Center and cloned his old HDD to that - frikin' night and day difference!
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