Do I really have to stop using Windows 7?

[PeterSt]

What would force you to stop using W7, you think ?

I mean, if you seek hide behind a VPN ... why would you do that in the first place ?

[PeterSt]

5 minutes ago, serendipitydawg said:

I only mentioned VPN because I thought it would hide my IP address

 

Well, it would. It would on W10 just the same. But unrelated, I guess.

 

If this is nothing about banking programs cutting you out (and you just told that you don't use that), I don't see the need. But this could be personal. I mean, I am quite self supporting, and e.g. anti-virus I don't use anyway (but as you said, that will keep on running).

 

It depends ...

 

I just upgraded the PC I am typing this post with from W7 32 bits to W10 64 bits. I did this after way too many years because literal upgrading from 32 bits to 64 bits is not possible and thus all has to be set up again from scratch. This is a total-pain and in throughput time after a month I am still working on it (but almost finished now). I knew this, and this is why it took me so long.

But the longer you wait, the worse it may get.

 

For our software we support W10 since the 10074 almost "alpha" build (this is worse than beta). Throughout the W10 years we mostly followed the upgrade path of W10. I thus quite well know what W10 is about. But, this is pure audio playback related and for normal daily home or work usage I always advised not to do it. This idea changed maybe 6 months ago. This is how I finally turned this PC into a W10 PC as well.

I can't be happier.

 

If you talk about a PC which plays audio, I would have done it 4 years ago. W10 sounds quite infinitely better than W7.  IOW there shouldn't be a single doubt in that case. For home usage or work usage, by now it is just all over better. With some tweaking you can postpone the updates or even cancel them (this is not official), but say it is merely about the (by now) smoothness of everything. Better support from all angles (support of the OS to the programs used).

 

I can try to write a book about it, but I better just say that you should do it. Even if it takes massive time I would consider it. But if it can go by means of automatic upgrading, I say a no-brainer.

 

Peter

[PeterSt]

Btw, the other answer would be: Just leave your W7 be, as I don't see why not. My general development machine for the playback software and a lot more, is W7. And as long as it is 64 bits (which it is), this is fine. But I *am* aware of the fact that in the future I could run into unsupported development tools. As long as I am not bothered with that, there is no single reason that I can see to not let that be as it is.

 

That PC does not do email or other outside communication. This could matter.

 

Talking about that ... changing of email client is what you may face with the change from W7 to W10. This usually is a pain within itself. If you make use of a cloud email client then this is obviously no issue.