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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.

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.

smileyhead ,

When no longer supporting Ubuntu 16.04: No big deal, just update, duh…

When no longer supporting Windows 7/8: How dare you!

Vilian ,

Lmao i only knew they could stop supporting windows 7, people uae more windows 7 than windows 8

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

WTF is Windows 8.1?

ShunkW ,

Windows 8.1 was a major update that undid a lot of UI updates that people didn’t like after 7

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Soon Windows 10.1

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

I had already uninstalled and replaced it with 7.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The fix for the god awful TileOS decision.

21Cabbage ,

I didn’t conceptually hate the UI there was just so much room for improvement in implementation, if I recall correctly. I was only using a Windows machine for a short time during that era though.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That’s why the Win10 start menu was better.
Tiles where it’s appropiate and you could even nake the start full screen to top it of.

BURN ,

The un-fucking of Windows 8 release

It actually was a pretty useable OS most of the time

Telodzrum ,

Yup, it was a very solid OS. It’s similar to how people remember XP, but what they really remember is XP Service Pack 2 which was the rock solid version.

Critical_Insight ,

This is the sole reason my gaming rig is now running on Ubuntu. I have never had Linux on my personal computer before but since I was forced to update the OS anyway, I thought might aswell give Linux a shot.

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

I'm on Linux :)

MrVilliam ,

How’s the experience, overall? I love the Steam Deck OS UI, so I’m thinking of building an AMD machine to run Chimera OS. I’ve heard nothing but problems when it comes to Windows 11.

I don’t intend on playing competitive shooters, so idc about kernel anticheat keeping me out of Call of Duty or whatever.

SomethingBurger ,

I play exclusively on Linux. Almost every game I tried worked flawlessly. The very few that didn’t, crashed on startup or a few minutes after. If you don’t play AAA online games with anticheat then you should be good. As a rule of thumb, if it works on the Deck then it will work on any Linux distro.

MrVilliam ,

Hell yeah! I’ve only experienced a few crashes on SD, and so far only on 2 emulated games that I’m okay with just not playing. I love that Valve started really investing in Linux support to make it possible for idiots like me to have somewhere to turn when Microsoft phones it in.

demonsword ,
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If you are using steam, there’s protondb, where you can check how well game runs on linux

MrVilliam ,

I appreciate the link, but I was more asking about the general experience than about game compatibility. I have a Steam Deck and am enjoying the game functionality, and I haven’t hit too many snags in general PC usage on it yet in desktop mode (but I’ve barely used it for that). I’m really just asking around as a medium level Windows user about fully replacing my Windows laptop with a Chimera build to see what concessions I’ll need to accept to have realistic expectations. I’m optimistic that frustrations will be mostly at the “dang it, oh well” level which I could either live with or find a layman level solution to kinda fix. So far, the only real concern I’ve found with my plan to build a modern Chimera steam machine is that the parts I want will cost me like $1500, and that’s pretty hard to justify when I already have a Steam Deck, PS5, and a 2015 Windows 10 laptop. It’s another expensive device that kinda just does what my current shit can already do, just all in one rig. If my laptop or PS5 died, I’d have a lot more reason to go for it.

Carter ,

8 and 8.1 is a shame. Best versions if Windows we’ve ever had.

partial_accumen ,

Your post would do well in “unpopular opinion”.

NoRodent ,
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To be fair, W8.1 wasn’t that bad, you could even change the full screen start menu to a regular one. W10 was better though. W11 is… well they fixed the most glaring issues over the last year but I still can’t get over the crippled start menu.

sorghum ,
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I was done with Windows when the spying and built in advertising. Poor design decisions are one thing, but untrustworthy untoward actions to the user are another. The last shred of trustworthiness Micro$oft had in my eyes was was being mostly straight in Windows instead of the shady and underhanded shit. We should’ve seen it coming when they started offering free upgrades

sorghum ,
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Are/were you a big fan of Vista and ME as well?

thisisawayoflife ,

LOL wasn’t ME sorry of a bolt on to 98? IIRC that was the most unstable version of Windows I had ever used. It actually forced me to explore Linux as a desktop seriously for the first time (and shit was jacked in 98-00). I seriously used NT4 as a desktop because it was the most stable version of Windows I could find at the time. Hard time playing games though.

sorghum ,
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I wish I was old enough to have access to install NT on the family compute at the time. My aunt and uncle had ME and it was bad enough that i knew to keep it off my family’s machine. Instead I stuck with 98 SE until XP and it gave me an excuse to build a new machine at the same time.

NoisyFlake ,

Vista wasn’t actually a bad OS, it just got a bad reputation pretty fast because it had higher hardware requirements than XP and most people didn’t have decent enough hardware for a smooth experience. That in combination with the new UAC feature that most people thought was annoying drove people away pretty fast, although the OS itself wasn’t bad - in fact, it’s pretty similar to Windows 7.

A7thStone ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f845bfd5-e0ea-43ce-9a55-765fcd180633.jpeg

Appoxo , (edited )
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Worst of both worlds.
Win10 beats it by a mile.
Only way to make the win better would be more privacy.

melroy ,
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Ow.. and Windows 11 also have stronger hardware requirements, making your laptop not usable in the future if Windows 10 is also deprecated. Causing more and more e-waste ;( just because of software from Microsoft.

reddig33 ,

Steam would be smart to package their steam deck OS as a dual boot installer for PCs. Boot right into steam when you want to play games.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug ,

They’re eventually going to release SteamOS onto desktop platforms, but for now you can just install Linux.

SteamOS has so many deck and handheld specific features that it’s not really a good OS for desktop hardware. HoloISO is something you can install, though, as long as you don’t have a Nvidia card, which is just SteamOS packaged in a way that let’s it run on other hardware

TotalFat ,

No big. Just run everything in compatibility mode and pick Windows 10 or 11.

/s

TwilightVulpine ,

Gotta wonder how that affects older games that haven’t been updated since…

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