I'm not a fan of Win 7/8 being called "ancient"
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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The tech industry moves fast. Win 7/8 are ancient in tech terms
Tell that to the MS Dos PCs I regularly have to maintain and provide safety to. They still live.
Something can be ancient and still function for purpose. We've uncovered ancient pottery intact.
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When Win7 reached EOL we were using Linux 5.4
That's pretty ancient.
But the kernel going 3.11 and not stopping at 3.10 was just yesterday... merely 10 years ago.
Sytems that don't receive security patches anymore well deserve that title. You'd hardly keep it airgapped if you care about Steam updates.
In computer time, it is pretty ancient.
"This could take like hundreds of nanoseconds... It could even take one. Whole. Second! 😱" - Enzo Matrix, Reboot
What value is there to using windows 7 nowadays. I genuinely don't understand
It's the last Windows that could look this comfy:
Inertia
Ancient! What does that make me!?
antediluvian
Starting to see an absolute flood of those. A literal deluge!
a Cosmic Horror
The ancestors. According to the new gen we are the ancestors.
Ancient... ME is ancient, XP is old, 7 is almost old (you still see it here and there).
I'm not ancient, you are ancient!
It’s time to install Nobara on those machines.
Personally, I dislike that Nobara is relying on patched Mesa and kernel versions. This is unnecessary risk of instability. AFAIK Bazzite doesn't do that.
There wasn't even a DOS 5 version of Steam ☹️
Friendly Reminder: You can install any KDE based Linux distribution and probably have an equivalent or better experience with security and regular steam updates.
Compatibility isn't really an excuse in this case, as Windows 7/8 will no longer be compatible with the most troubling games anyway. You'd be best off on a modern system with proper security patches.
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