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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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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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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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