Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7. Source: over 1 year ago

After Windows 7 End of Life I decided it was too risky to use Windows 7 on any machine connected to the internet. Same reason I don't use Windows-XP anymore. Source: almost 2 years ago

Please note that Windows 7 is no longer actively supported by Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7) and we can no longer guarantee backwards compatibility in cases like this. Source: almost 2 years ago

I'd tie it to Microsoft's support lifecycle. Even Windows 7 is out of extended support now. Source: about 2 years ago

Windows 7 went EOL in on Jan 14, 2020. Are you talking about the Extended Security Update? That ends Jan 10, 2023. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Now on to DOS! At the homepage of the same website, I have a list of recommended software a certain DOS enthusiast may find interesting. I also have an ANSI-like desktop environment called "PsychDOS" at https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io that is rather large in size but worst case, you can "gut-it-out" or just play around with it in DOSBox. Source: 12 months ago

PsychOS (https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io) was mostly developed on an Acer Aspire One ZG5 (AOA150), just like the one in the video but with 1GB of RAM and I think it has 256MB of VRAM. The reason I am mentioning it is because I also pack it with emulators and makes use of DOSBox to run software from the programs menu, as well as includes a program I made called RetroGrab to easily add more; or worse case, just visit... Source: over 2 years ago

Just to recap, PsychDOS is an ANSI-like, but clickable, desktop environment for DOS that I released a while back in which I had two options, one for installing onto DOSBox, FreeDOS, MS-DOS, etc. Via a ZIP and another option for running an IMG (pre-configured FreeDOS) in a virtual machine emulator called QEMU so as to have working Internet. However, it recently dawned on me that most people are probably using... Source: over 2 years ago

I'm sort of a lazy ass too so I use Imagemagick for everything in the terminal. If you check PsychOS they have a huge collection of individual tools that can perform some advanced editing features like deepfake ai stuff. Source: almost 3 years ago

Do i386 packages run on an i486 machine or is using "i386" just a generic naming kind of thing? I've been trying to figure out ways to create an i486 version of PsychOS (https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io) and Knoppix 7.2.0 may be a solution but would adding a bunch of i386 packages actually work or break things? Plus I need to know before I end up putting my foot in my mouth any further if I ever go on a luddite... Source: about 3 years ago