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Do devs have plans to stop supporting Win7?

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If so mind if I ask when it will be?

I'm not gonna be able to use any other operating systems (probably) for the next few years so I'm kinda bit worried.
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When Qt stops supporting Windows 7 (see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74687), we will stop supporting Windows 7 in new versions, or when Windows 7 stops being supported by Microsoft, whichever will come earlier. We already don't have any working Windows 7 test system anymore, and we're seeing more and more bugs that look Windows 7 specific.

That would mean you would have to stay with older versions of Krita that do not get any updates anymore, but then, that will hold for your OS as well.
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boudewijn wrote:When Qt stops supporting Windows 7 (see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74687), we will stop supporting Windows 7 in new versions, or when Windows 7 stops being supported by Microsoft, whichever will come earlier. We already don't have any working Windows 7 test system anymore, and we're seeing more and more bugs that look Windows 7 specific.

That would mean you would have to stay with older versions of Krita that do not get any updates anymore, but then, that will hold for your OS as well.


Ok.
One more. How many people use krita in Win7 currently and how much is it in comparison to the other OS? Do you have any statics or estimations?
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tayloryoung wrote:One more. How many people use krita in Win7 currently and how much is it in comparison to the other OS? Do you have any statics or estimations?


We don't track usage as such so we don't really know, so we'll have to make do with krita.org visitor counts, which gives a bit of an indication, though not completely, of course -- it also counts people who are just browsing using their tablet to read the artist interviews:

Windows 10 56.4% 807,753
Windows 7 12.2% 174,658
Windows 8.1 3.9% 55,892
Mac 10.14 3.8% 54,250
iOS 12.1 2.7% 39,374
Mac 10.13 2.5% 35,762
Android 8.0 2.4% 33,793
GNU/Linux 2.3% 32,651
Ubuntu 1.8% 25,829
Android 7.0 1.2% 17,536

But well, it's not up to us, we already cannot fix bugs that are really Windows 7 specific, because we don't have the test devices, and once Qt no longer supports Windows 7, we cannot either. That means that Krita probably will run on Windows 7 even after Microsoft stops supporting it, be we wouldn't know...


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