Win XP to Win 7, Am I daft for not going to 10 (DAW / General Use PC)?
Hi
Long time XP user here who struggles with change! But for reasons I won't bore you with, I need to make the move away from XP.
I want to go for W7 for a number of reasons. Firstly, I have an EMU 1820M and would like to keep using that. I'm not sure if some of my other HW would have trouble with W10 as well. Secondly, I have not liked the look of W10 when I've seen it. Thirdly, I've heard scare stories about privacy with W10, though I'm not sure how true they are and haven't looked too deeply into it.
The reason I'm thinking I might be daft.... Moving from XP to ??? is going to be a major thing for me. I know some people can just get on with it but I ain't one of those people! It will be a time consuming and stressful endeavour (and I'll no doubt be back with many questions!). So it was with much disappointment that I recently learnt support for W7 will end in 2020. The idea of doing all this now just to have to do it again in two or three years leaves me feeling queasy and ill.
I guess my main concern is that this is my general use PC as well, so when W7 support stops I'll be less safe. That being said, I'm still on XP, I've never had a SW firewall, and I've never had a virus or any of that kind of trouble. So it would be interesting to know whether I've just been lucky or whether updates, etc are "overrated". That might also help me decide how significant the end of support for W7 will be.
There's no main question aside from the one in the title. But I hoped that by sharing my thoughts others might be able to chime in with theirs...
Thanks to all!
Max
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