[Qgis-user] QGIS on Windows 7

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Jurgen,

 > Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the 
api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package. That should make python work on 
Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit).

I think most Win 7 users would benefit from simply having a link to 
whatever the latest release is that works for Win 7.

Something like 10% of all Windows users are Windows 7 after all - 
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide 
- By my maths that's about 3 times more (in absolute numbers) than there 
are Linux users. So that's a lot of users who can't readily download 
QGIS (as it's not clear which one they should be downloading other than 
"not the latest").

Thanks,

Jonathan


On 09/11/2022 11:58, Jürgen E. Fischer via Qgis-user wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On Wed, 09. Nov 2022 at 09:39:29 +0100, Jonathan Moules via Qgis-user wrote:
>>> QGIS requires Windows 8 64 bit or higher because QGIS uses Python 3.9 or
>>> later, which is not available for Windows 7
>   
>> What's the last version that will work on Windows 7? Ideally an LTS.
>   
>> Also, given there are still many millions of Windows 7 users out there, it
>> may be worth linking to it explicitly as well.
> Try installing from OSGeo4W, but include the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK package.
> That should make python work on Windows 7 again (but still only 64bit).
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
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