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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I bet, we don't find a single Windows 8 user who uses Steam on that system. Similar applies to Win7.

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

    Not anymore since it no longer works.

    I was still using Steam on Windows 7 as late as last month. Losing access to Steam was one motivation to finally upgrade my computer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why not switch to Linux? There is several ones which works well with steam

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's actually just what I did. New PC runs Manjaro Linux. So far all the games I've thrown at it work just fine.

    Maybe I should have done that with the old PC, but I'm lazy and Windows 7 was working well enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because maybe they want to play games without having to check if it runs on linux?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Thanks to the Steam Deck and proton development, these days that's pretty much limited to a few incompatible multiplayer anticheat systems. Gone are the days where a developer actually had to make a Linux build.

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