• southsamurai
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    1 year ago

    11? Fuck that, I’m not sidegrading to 8.

    I ain’t even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.

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        1 year ago

        Stockholm syndrome windows users trying to justify their toxic relationship to microsoft (colorized circa 2020).

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        It’s insecure (in more ways than one) to be running Windows in general. If you value security to a high degree you probably shouldn’t be using Windows.

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        Well, security doesn’t matter for a media device like that. The exposure is so minimal that it might as well not exist.

        Hell, considering I really only use it to pirate shit maybe once a month nowadays, my main desktop PC isn’t even on enough to matter; I could keep any old OS on it.

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      I’ve been forced to install Windows 10 on my brand new build because it doesn’t support W7.

      But Steam is also dropping W7 support by the end of this year anyway. Yes, there are native Linux games on Steam and there’s also Proton and WINE, but it’s not a 100% solution.

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        Why would it support a 14 year old OS whose final release was 12 years ago and mainstream support ended 8 years ago?

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        Well, I was hyped for Baldur’s gate 3, and I may still end up getting it, but I’d have to upgrade too much hardware to play it, and there’s really no other games that I’m interested in.

        Musicbee is the main reason I’m still running 7 on that pc rather than some flavor of linux. If it ever gets a port, or actually starts working right via wine, bye bye windows for me.

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          MusicBee is excellent, but I gave up on it to switch to Linux. Also, I’ve started to fall in love with simple players which depend on folder structure rather than a database, although I suppose one might miss the customisation with MusicBee

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            I’ve tried every player on Linux. I can’t even find one that properly displays lyrics embedded in the file. None that offer tagging searches at all, or album covers.

            Music bee is much more than a player, it’s a full music management tool in one program. It handles external device sync better than anything else I’ve found too.

            The customization is just a nicety for me :)