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.

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.

  • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    I feel like this group of people are the kind that would already be on Linux though. If you’re that anti Microsoft why be on any version of Windows when such a great suitable replacement that also still works on these older systems exists?

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      110·
      11 months ago

      I feel like this group of people are the kind that would already be on Linux though.

      I have plenty of Linux machines and used Unix since before Linux existed. But when I want to play WINDOWS games and dont want to deal with wine hassles I need a windows box.

      • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Wine hassles? It’s not 2013 anymore. Proton sets up a prefix on first run and you don’t think about it.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          11 months ago

          You’ll probably even have more issues on Win7 for gaming than on Linux lol

          No DX12 support, questionable driver support from AMD/Nvidia, Win7 CPU scheduling not playing well with plenty of recent CPUs, etc.

      • KeithEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Linux gaming is good now.