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I was one of those people still rocking Windows 7 in the very early part of this year since I was waiting for known-faster hand-me-down PC hardware from 3 different people that had been looking to get a new PC and subsequently hand-down their existing albeit faster-than-my-current PC, at which point then I might as well install a newer OS, and this had been "waiting in the wings" so to say since 2019 at the earliest
...then the crypto boom hit, and all 3 people decided against upgrading their PCs (one of them who was even actively searching for a GPU and was basically ready to buy their new PC straight-up bought a PS5 instead).
And then, around March/April of this year, I was gifted a Ryzen 4800U device, but its iGPU is unsupported on anything older than Windows 10. I am an emulation enthusiast however, and non-Nvidia graphics drivers are not only better on Linux (especially for Intel, but AMD somewhat as well), but it's also WAY easier to get the official 1st party GameCube USB adapter working on Linux than it is on Windows. I also really like how, as long as you're not using Nvidia graphics, you can take a single HDD/SSD with an installation of Linux and both it without any issue on an Intel CPU+GPU system and/or an AMD CPU+GPU system, allowing you to basically bounce between multiple PCs such as a laptop and a desktop (heck, if you installed your OS from UEFI, you can even make it boot through both UEFI and legacy BIOS - as long as your PC isn't 15+ years old since this requires using a GPT partition table).
...then, sometime in summer, the Dolphin emulator announced that they were dropping support for Windows 7.
...and then, a few months later, one of the visual novels I regularly follow, Press-Switch, upgraded to a newer version of Ren'Py that no longer works on Windows 7.
...and then, another month later, the other visual novel I regularly follow, Student Transfer, also upgraded to this newer version of Ren'Py that no longer supports Windows 7.
So I guess there's officially NO GOING BACK to Windows 7, and I'm now typing this from my Linux installation that I originally installed on that 4800U device but have it booted on my primary dual-core Haswell desktop PC (it's the famous G3258 which I've had overclocked for 5+ years now to 4.6GHz @ 1.3v and it therefore outperforms the 4800U in single-threaded emulation tasks, especially considering that emulation is quite possibly Haswell's strongest point while emulation is one of Zen2's weakest points which is even weaker on APU Zen2 due to its quartered L3 cache since the Zen architecture loves cache - see also: Ryzen 5800X3D vs Ryzen 5700X).
This post has been edited by Rin Tohsaka: Dec 22 2022, 08:13
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The Fifteenth Annual E-Hentai Yuletide Lottery, Getting in deep
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