Which windows (7, 8.1, 10) should I get?

Need to have a windows machine.

That depends on what features you want and what you intend to use it for.

Stop being such an indecisive coward and make a decision for yourself for once. You need to stop sucking on my teet and grow the fuck up. I can't live your life for you any longer.

>>1
I have an air-gapped Windows 10 machine at the end of my work bench I power on whenever I need to use Visual Studio for portability reasons. I suggest you do the same. If if you don't air-gap, you're an idiot.

I like Apple Windows.

GET IT IN DEAR ANUS GET IT IN DEAR ANUS

XP Pro VL

>>2
Define air-gap. Using a hardware firewall? Running on a virtual machine? Completely disconnecting from the Internet? All of them?

>>7
I'm not >>2, but air gap means no connectivity. No wifi, no ethernet, no bluetooth, no IrDA, no serial null modem, not in a VM, etc. Completely standalone.

Better to un-have the need for a Windows machine.

If playing games, Windows 10. All hardware drivers will all work on it these days which is nice.

If you just need Windows to run some Windows software that isn't gaming, Windows 7 should be fine. The later updates will annoy the fuck out of you to upgrade to Windows 10 though.

These tools can be useful if you use Windows 10:

https://bgr.com/2015/08/14/windows-10-spying-prevention-privacy-tools/

I'd suggest blocking all that Microsoft Crap with the hosts file. I also suggest blocking those TCP ports used for Telemetry because it's just a waste of bandwidth and pretty awful with Privacy.

You can do this to kill Cortana too if you want; it's fairly useless:

https://superuser.com/questions/949569/can-i-completely-disable-cortana-on-windows-10

I did a few other stuff with my Windows 10 machine too but I can't remember everything. Was quite a lot of shit.

No need for 8.1 as there is no real reason to use it anymore.

>>10
JACKSON DUBS GET

7 is the least unreasonable one. 8 is just plain shit, 10 is unmasked spyware.

reactos or wine

STALLMAN COMMANDS YOU

*drops clutch

What's this i hear about bill gates letting us compile our own hole-ware?

20 years on from windows 95, people should've figured out exactly what an OS needs to do and be by nao

Infinite doughnut-shaped patches didn't make the list..

What happened to 9?!? I smell a conspiracy.

>>17
Same thing that will happen to 11. Get it? 9/11.

>>17
Would have matched 'Windows 9*' matches in shit code, making it think it was Win95 or 98.

>>19
Even if this is the reason, why couldn't they just use "Windows 9+"?

>>20
Because that would match "Windows 99" but neither "Windows 95" nor "Windows 98".

>>21
The same goes for >>19, idiot.

>>22
Fuck right off.

>>23
Fuck all the way off.

>>22
He didn't say /Windows 9*/

glob shit, not _/regex/ shit.

>>24
Fuck 120% off.