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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)

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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] daf 7 points 10 months ago

It will break as soon as they update CEF which they were likely dragging their feet on doing to keep Windows 7/8.1 support.

The entire Steam UI is a web page running on embeded chromium (what cef is), They're using an ancient version atm (v85 i believe), current version is v121 and Windows 7/8.1 support was dropped in v110.