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rofl Nerd talk. I have decided to down grade my operating system to windows 7 pro or ultimate to replace windows 10 pro enterprise with Linux dual boot. Not sure my system supports windows 7 I am going to make a custom windows usb drive with modified drivers. I do not think it will work since my processor is an 6th gen core i5 oddly reporting as 8th gen. I wish I had the i7 model because it supports 16gb ram and better onboard video. The 4th gen is only natively supported under window 7. 4laugh

I know what some of you are thinking just upgrade to windows 11 or use linux blah blah. Well I dislike windows 11 allot almost as much as I disk like windows 10.

Windows 11 is not supported by my cpu but it runs fine for about three to four months then starts to have random issues and is glitchy. Weird thing is I usually can tell if something will turn out ok or not based on feelings I get but I am not getting any feelings from this.

My specs. Inspiron 13 7353 Laptop. i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s), 8gbs ram, hard drive SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 8TB 2.5.

I will be using a custom modified windows 7 is with usb 3.1 drivers, and other random drivers added.

If this works at all I will let you know. BTW I am not backing up my blockchain since i was royaly fk the gov and a few banks making it useless. i will have to start over oh poor me. well better to be poor then dead lo i guess. I miss being able to afford pizza and orange chicken or even subway on the weekends. free pizza and free panda express or subway would make me happy/ heart heart heart

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For those wonder I was able to clean install a modified version of windows 7 ultimate with added usb 3.0 drivers, Sata, Cpu drivers the Dell Inspiron 13 7353 Laptop. Only problem I had was I had to use a 2tb ssd instead of an 8tb ssd I think it might be because of a limited Sata driver I added. After install was done I used a program called snappy drivers to install missing drivers except for touch pad synopses because they are listed wrong with cyprus. Normal generic touch pad drivers with windows 7 worked fine. I use a usb plug in mouse anyways. It runs much faster then windows 10 and 11. So far it has been very stable with blue screens or crashes. Only real issue its not supported by microsoft and windows 7 will no longer be updated by them. I also installed a couple different web browsers since internet explorer is lame. I use open office and not microsoft office so I do not know if any version above 2003/2007 will work without modifications.