I was surprised to find that one of the old Find-It Centers, which had been shut down years previously, was back up and running on this visit. Well, powered on, at least -- it was sitting on a login screen, and I imagine whatever servers these used to connect to had been dead for ages. It's getting rare to spot Windows 7 in the wild these days (by the time I took this picture, even Windows 10 was out of mainstream support), though I know some people still cling to it as one of the only good versions of Windows (I'm in the camp that there never were any good versions of Windows, just ones that were less garbage).
I keep thinking about switching to Linux, but in my limited use of it so far, I always find it rather frustrating. Still, I'd much rather use Linux than Windows!
ReplyDeleteI know some people who are still using Windows 7. Seems like you can still use a lot of modern software with it, probably because it was still in common use in business systems until pretty recently. The security issue would be a big concern for me, though!
When my work updated from 10 to 11, a lot of the weird glitches I had been dealing with for years went away (some of the specialized software we use hated Windows 10 for some reason), but it did seem to make my computer run even slower. I'm always amazed at how poorly my work computer runs -- it's several years newer than my personal MacBook and cost several times as much, yet it's just so much slower. I'm sure some of that is Windows' fault and some of it is the security software that's always running (that's what the IT guys blame, at least).