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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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[–] 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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