Steam's support will end for Windows 10 whenever Google decides it wants to cut off Chrome support for the OS, traditionally it's 2 to 3 years. Not really Valve's decision unless they abandon Chromium for the Steam app, which is highly unlikely.
Speaking of the Steam application, I find it kinda insane how it's still 32-bit on Windows despite pretty much no one still accessing Steam on a 32-bit machine. Even crazier is that it's 64-bit on MacOS so they've already put in the work to make it work on x86-64, just not on the main platform that uses Steam.
I actually looked at those but they're both way more expensive than any open loop, and almost all of them are unavailable for import.
How do you all feel about programs like Windows Ameliorated?
Never used it. I find most of them to be snake oil and Windows updates will often fuck up custom tweaks anyway.
They now usually delete the ability for Windows to do force updates.
Backwards compatibility is one of the key strengths of Windows. I for one don't mind Valve dragging their heels with AMD64 client.
That would be extremely retarded of them... which is why it's inevitable.
In fairness, Steam becoming 64 bit on Mac is likely only because of Apple going to everyone 'Right, fuck you, we're all going to 64 bit. You don't like it, get the fuck out."
Or until google drops 32bit support from chromium, which is more likely than Microsoft doing it.
This last round, they broke Outlook's ability to connect to generic IMAP email servers and CALDAV calendars. At least, it won't connect to mine. Old Outlook did just fine. I switched to Thunderbird, which is a massive pile of dog shit, but at least it connects.
Try Betterbird. It's a soft fork of Thunderbird ESR with extra tweaks and patches.
I haven't really used ultrawide since I don't have the space or the use-case for them. 32" flat is about as large as I'm willing to go.
Thanks those are some more options for me to check out. For context I'm a desk jockey and will have spreadsheets on it for 8 hrs a day and gaming will be only an hour or two here or there. Old school conventional wisdom was that OLED was less than ideal for this use case. Has that changed at all?
Oh yeah I'd stick with VA or IPS then. QD-OLED still has burn-in. You usually get a 3-year warranty. But if you're using it 8 hours a day with no precautions it'll start showing signs after around 8 or 9 months.
CALDAV is one thing, but IMAP?!?!?!
To be fair to OLED - most LCDs will also start aging in that time, in that their backlights will begin to dim. While they don't get burn-in, the effective lifetimes of OLED and LCD aren't really that different if you're not putting persistent images on them for long periods of time.
At the end of the day, provided the underlying software can do it... wider is better.(With apologies to Pontiac)
Redundancy.
