Why upgrade its so unesseary ,iPad fills in the  gaps now 

I have a win 11 laptop but don’t use it much,and various drives with various Wins on em to pop em in 

Windows 7 was a great operating system.  Its user interface made sense to many.  People could find what they wanted to find without too much trouble, and make tweaks also.

 

I used Classic Shell and now Open Shell to make Windows 10 appear like Windows 7.   

 

I held off upgrading my Windows 7 machines to Windows 10 until Windows 7 reached End of Life.  

 

I installed Windows 10 on an old Core 2 Duo running a HDD that I use as a media player.  I did it for practice before moving on to other machines I have.  The old machine handled Windows 10 without any problems. 

 

I've just bumped a thread about Windows 11 on unsupported hardware.  If Windows 10 can run fine on an old machine that from factory had Windows Vista on it, the whole Windows 11 on unsupported hardware is BS, particularly as many people around the world used work arounds to run Windows 11 on unsupported hardware and reported no problems.

 

When the day comes, and your hardware fails, and you need a new computer, download Open Shell for the Windows 7 user interface.   

Windows 7 was the best 🙂
Windows 10 has a lot of telemetry imbedded (sends out a lot of data about the user).
Windows 11 has AI that knows you even better then Windows 10.

The only issue is security updates, it's not safe to use Windows 7 for online banking etc.