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Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Brian Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I love Windows 7, and if you're happy with it and (and the and is important) > aren't going to replace your current equipment until after the end of > extended support for Windows 7 then it's fine to stay with it. There is a > big, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," factor. As a tech geek who > participates on several Windows 10 forums I can definitely say that upgrades > from Windows 7 to Windows 10 have been more problematic, and the older your > hardware and the more "well-used" your system the more likely they are to be > problematic. The biggest issues have cropped up because Windows 10 does not > "play well" with a lot of older device drivers. If you can find one for the > specific device that was written for Windows 10 you're golden, or for Windows > 8/8.1 that works you're OK, too. That being said, I myself had to convert a > Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop to a Linux machine after trying Windows 10 on it > because I could never locate a device driver for the Alps Electric mousepad > that would work consistently under Windows 10 (and believe me, I tried lots > of them). > > There is, however, a flip side to that coin. The end of support for Windows > 7 is in the foreseeable future. Once official support ends for any operating > system it becomes more and more vulnerable to attack over time (until it gets > so old that those who do this sort of thing are focusing on the newer OSes > for amusement). Upgrading to Windows 10 when you get new hardware will > happen. There really is a "golden period" where you're participating in the > changes with a huge wave of people experiencing the same issues at the same > time and where the solution seeking in that cohort is in high gear. No one > can exactly define when that period begins and ends, but it will definitely > be over within a year or so. Late adopters often find it far harder to slog > through the reams of "tried and failed" work that is out there after the fact > and when there is no one still telling you, "no, you can ignore that, look > here for something that worked," when you're asking for help. > > Any OS change, even within the same OS family, is a fraught proposition. But > it can be, and often is, profoundly unwise to engage in long-term avoidance > when you will eventually be forced to make the change but do so when you're a > lot more "on your own" rather than "part of the group." > > My two cents. > > Brian > >
