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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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[–] toddestan 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not anymore since it no longer works.

I was still using Steam on Windows 7 as late as last month. Losing access to Steam was one motivation to finally upgrade my computer.

[–] topinambour_rex 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why not switch to Linux? There is several ones which works well with steam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because maybe they want to play games without having to check if it runs on linux?

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

Thanks to the Steam Deck and proton development, these days that's pretty much limited to a few incompatible multiplayer anticheat systems. Gone are the days where a developer actually had to make a Linux build.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's becoming way less of an issue nowadays

[–] toddestan 1 points 11 months ago

That's actually just what I did. New PC runs Manjaro Linux. So far all the games I've thrown at it work just fine.

Maybe I should have done that with the old PC, but I'm lazy and Windows 7 was working well enough.