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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by testeronious to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] drctrl -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Backups before doing anything else with partitions (or OS in general)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, all the important stuff was backed up naturally. Still lost some, I'd say "nostalgic old files" It just happens when you have large drives you can't just back it up without paying lots.