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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ow.. and Windows 11 also have stronger hardware requirements, making your laptop not usable in the future if Windows 10 is also deprecated. Causing more and more e-waste ;( just because of software from Microsoft.

[–] reddig33 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam would be smart to package their steam deck OS as a dual boot installer for PCs. Boot right into steam when you want to play games.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They're eventually going to release SteamOS onto desktop platforms, but for now you can just install Linux.

SteamOS has so many deck and handheld specific features that it's not really a good OS for desktop hardware. HoloISO is something you can install, though, as long as you don't have a Nvidia card, which is just SteamOS packaged in a way that let's it run on other hardware

[–] Nindelofocho 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SteamOS has a normal linux desktop, its only in deck mode where everything is deck specific

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's just Arch with KDE plasma

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think StreamOS has been around longer than the Steam deck, actually; but I'm sure it's been tailored somewhat for the hardware.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

SteamOS was scrapped and rebuilt. SteamOS 2 and 3 aren't related at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but the previous version has been based on Debian.