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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Those versions of windows haven't had support for years. They shouldn't even be connected to the internet.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    They shouldn't even be connected to the internet.

    Yes. What's also true is that sometimes they must be. You will disagree until you find the exception.

    There's nothing great about companies dropping support and also keeping the code in-house so we can't contract out improvements and fixes, but unless we change that we're stuck in a world where ridiculously expensive hardware either needs an old OS or becomes astoundingly expensive e-waste. And yes, it needs to connect sometimes. And yes, that's a scary as shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Half od my customers still use Win 7, a few on XP, some on8 for some reason, most on 10.
    Then there's maybe 10% on linux.

    Most industries are adverse to change and if you can just patch and continue then fine, especially if you don't need internet like with a POS.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    If you don’t need the internet then why would you care about not having the latest Firefox?

    It’s fine to use old unsupported OSes as long as they’re isolated from other machines and cannot access the outside world (and you’re careful).

    But nobody should be unironically using Firefox on windows 7. Windows 7 has been EOL for over half a decade at this point.

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