You won't be able to use more than compatibility modes if any with hardware newer than about 2015, because the drivers were built to a newer kernel ABI. It's great for legacy gaming, I still maintain an install for that purpose, but the idea of using Windows 7 in 2025 for a legitimately compute-bound workload is rather silly. Good heavens, even your disk IO is likely to run at half or less the speed it could!

The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?

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spacedrone808 6 days ago | parent [-]

I am on Ryzen 7950X/64Gb[swap in RAM]/1Tb 980 PRO NVME/24Gb3090Ti. Blazing fast.

And yeah NVME operations are actually faster than on windows 10.

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throwanem 6 days ago | parent [-]

Blazing fast where? I may have overlooked some GPU and memory benchmarks.

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spacedrone808 6 days ago | parent [-]

For example Blender rendering is faster than in windows 10, but slower comparing to Linux.

	▲	throwanem 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm surprised, but maybe I shouldn't be. And maybe if I put more work into picking a motherboard for a new Windows 7 build, I could even have working USB-C ports! It can't be as hard as a Hackintosh, probably... Still, it's hard to see Windows excelling at anything but gaming, and if it's possible to get DX12 support on Win 7, I've never been able to find a working explanation of how. Compute loads I already have targets for.