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Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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No more Steam for Windows 7 8 holdouts.

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[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean... Windows 10 came out -what?- 9 years ago at this point. Gee, I'm getting old

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, that doesn't feel right. Windows 10 came out in 2015 and nine years ago, it was…

Oh god, no. When did the mid-2010s move so far into the past?

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Just now, technically.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I switched to mint because ms won't even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it's been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I've got goofy Intel/NVIDIA switchable graphics in my laptop that make it a pain in the ass to use my VMs and steam. But I wouldn't trade Mint for windows ever.

[–] ExiledKing@mastodon.gamedev.place 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@BrikoX I look forward to the removal of Windows 10 and 11 support next.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What makes you think they'd possibly do that?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It ought to tell them to "upgrade to a more recent OS" instead of being Windows-centric.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Steam

Windows Centric

You do realize what platform/company we’re talking about, right?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yes, we're talking about Valve, which has a vested interest in pushing gamers towards Linux in order to protect itself from anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I think that's exactly their point. Why would Valve tell users to "upgrade" to a more recent version of Windows? Tell them to upgrade to Linux

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

But they're using Windows. It isn't telling this to Mac/Linux users.