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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

2026 is a hell of a wait though considering new drivers and software will start targeting wayland in that time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is, but Mint has always prided itself on adopting new technology late once all the dust has settled. Besides, it's just for Wayland being the default (and most likely deprecating the X11 session), a usable wayland session for cinnamon will most likely be available come 2025.

There's always POP!_OS going in hot with their COSMIC compositor, so people who want to adopt wayland can do so when POP!_OS does and still have that "Ubuntu(TM) experience minus Canonical" distro.

If you want to see a hell of a wait, you should check out RHEL's deprecation timeline.