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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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[–] JTskulk 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't stop me from gaming on 7 either. I was only gaming on my windows partition so I didn't worry too much about vulns. Nothing in 8-11 interests me so I thought I'd try all my gaming in Linux and have been blown away by how good it is. I ran 7 up until last April and the cracks had finally started to show.

[–] JJROKCZ 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The cracks were probably because you were part of a botnet for using an insecure OS for years lol

[–] JTskulk 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was mainly due to qt dropping support (used by OBS, I could have stayed on an old version) and Steam for the same reason but Chromium. I probably could have kept my old computer and stayed on 7 for longer if I wanted to.

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

Nice job ignoring the very real possibility that your computer has been part of a botnet for years. The botnet thanks you for your service.

[–] JTskulk 1 points 10 months ago

I did ignore it, literally didn't read it. You have to run code or data from untrusted sources (or be available on a network) to get exploited, and I know that computer wasn't doing anything high bandwidth otherwise it would affect my gaming. I literally only played games on the install for a couple hours a night and my browser and other software was up to date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Congrats on joining Linux squad!

Linux gaming got waaaaay better than in before times. Also, the system itself is a miracle for someone coming from Windows. I remember that feeling. It's correct :)

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

Oh I'm very aware, I've been running Linux in one way or another for 20 years :)

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

Ah, great! Should be like at home then :)

[–] JTskulk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never felt more at home! No separate machines, no dualbooting, my games run great :D

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

They do!