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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] 113 points 2 years ago (21 children)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Time to use something better boys

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I tried. I finally wanted to switch away from Windows and installed mint. Spent about 3 hours trying to get my headphone jacks to work with some mildly obscure tools and commands but no dice. Then I managed to destroy one of my partitions by trying to Mount it but it gave me an obscure error. Searched the forums and found NTFS fix, well turns out I accidentally had turned the partition dynamic when moving it to a larger drive. NTFS fix didn't like that and promptly destroyed the file table. I lost a buch of data. So back to the cruddy Windows then...I'm not tech savvy enough, which is sad.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you've never, ever used Linux before and are not confident about its tools, it's almost always better to use a fresh machine. NTFS and Linux really don't mix well, for example.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Haha, yeah, as I've learned. I'll try again when I build a new machine. I really like the overall look and feel of Mint.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's been a few years since I used Mint, but I enjoyed it. Most of the Debian-based distros are very similar, actually. All are decent for beginners. If not Mint, Pop is another good option.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also Zorin

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I installed Zorin on my wife's (=no prior Linux experience) laptop something like 2 years ago. Considering the fact that she still uses it almost daily, I'd say you're right.

    Personally, I dislike some of the custom stuff it has over the more standard desktop environments, but I do think it's great for usability in that it feels Windows-adjacent.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    mint will be stuck on xorg for the foreseeable future.

    Mint will use xorg as the default session until 2026, where it is projected that wayland will solve most if not all of its showstoppers.

    Mint's cinnamon DE is built off of Mutter, GNOME's compositor, so all it means is that Mint will be doing the same thing that it has always done, been what GNOME could have been if it hadn't reinvented itself.

    Mint is a workflow extremely similar to what most users have experienced on Windows and specifically caters to Windows users or users coming from proprietary operating systems.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To me mint was always the closest to what I wanted as a Windows user. I still user windows most of the time now but whenever I use Linux, it's mint.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My last attempt to get games working on Linux did not go well, but I am hopeful the kinks will be sorted out by the time Win10 starts getting dropped.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I game exclusively on Linux these days. I haven’t had an issue that I couldn’t solve so far aside from shitty anti cheat software that doesn’t play nice.

    I play single player almost exclusively, so that isn’t much of a problem for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think my hardware might have had something to do with it, was trying on a somewhat older laptop. Most games would not launch even with Proton and even most Linux native games did not work even after a fair bit of troubleshooting. I get that some people might not have problems but I believe problems still remain widespread.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, definitely.

    Still, I think you should try with better hardware when you can.

    Any differences will not be significant.

    Get a Steam deck. Holy hell I love mine.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'd rather not have to upgrade hardware that can run the games I want to play perfectly fine, hoping for improved support (or at the very least a straightforward way to tell specifically what the problem is). Though once Win10 ends it's not like there's going to be an alternative to Linux anyway since Win11 has strict requirements for new stuff.

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