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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)

Do you have evidence it is unmaintained?

Last commit years ago?

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

it needs bits and bobs to keep working as is. last commit is an indicator but not a great one by itself.

it aint getting new support, and security patches are taking their sweet damn time. compare that with projects that support wayland. also take a look at what a lot of xorg devs have been working on.

my point this whole time is that a distro stuck on it will start to reflect that.

i feel like this isnt going anywhere so have a nice day.