Steam dropping Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support in 2024 - because of course a game platform is locked to one shitty web browser

[Kane Lives]

Welp. Time to convert my machine to a Linux one at this rate. May as well.

 

[crowabunga]

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Even if it does result in a small influx, that would mean Linux distros getting... all the autistics who are technically confident enough to remain on a no-longer-supported OS, but who were also very attached to (old) Microsoft products, out of habit or necessity.

Honestly, I'd prefer Windows keep them, because (1) if they need to run stuff like Photoshop for professional use they're better off not bothering with FOSS alternatives, and (2) wherever they go they will be autistically screeching, and the GNU/Linux "community" has enough of that already.

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

"applications" that are just web browsers are the cancer that is plaguing software development.
fuck you to those who unironically think this is a good way of making software.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

I wonder how much MS paid them to drop old windows support.

 

[std::string]

It's intentional this time, they're doing it for spying.

Well I found out something interesting when I got wireshark out and was trying to figure out if Dead by Daylight leaked player IP addresses...

Steam hooks into Cortana and reports back to Valve's servers even when you have the client closed. That's, uh...suspicious.

 

[The Last Stand]

Lord Gaben can do no wrong in the games industry.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

This is what you get for 'buying' games embedded with DRM.

I pirate games that I legally own on Steam simply to have a DRM-less version in case Steam has a issue, to run them on other machines or to have modded versions run better. I have the legal right to this software I purchased and the Antichrist can go fuck itself.

If you want to have your "FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!" moment you can use the Linux port, no?

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Mashallah the Penguin will rise. From your lips to God's ears.

I might actually sit down and learn Linux at this point. I'm that butt mad about 7 support being cut. They'll cut 10 at a whim to force me to cuck myself and use 11.

Most things on Steam now work out of the box with 0 need to tweak or mess with configurations just by going on the propreties and setting it to use Proton manualy. For more newer titles I have also had great experiences with using Bottles to run a Windows version of Steam on Linux that makes the games run in a nearly indistinguishable manner to if it was on MS software.

I wonder how much MS paid them to drop old windows support.

Honestly? Probably nothing. They negotiated with Google instead to force Chromium to stop updating on older Windows. Why deal with Valve and companies like it when they can go straight to the source and poison the well there?

 

[WULULULULU]

I might actually sit down and learn Linux at this point. I'm that butt mad about 7 support being cut. They'll cut 10 at a whim to force me to cuck myself and use 11.

Your Linux Mint bro?

I'm kidding but to be honest, I'm more hopeful for Linux desktops, especially since AMD is the better choice (unless its workstation related, then you have to rely on Intel).

Lord Gaben can do no wrong in the games industry.

There are no "Messiahs" in any industry and you are a plain retard if you think there is one.

 

[Finger Pistols]

Fuck me and the gay Devs. I am running on a Windows 8.1 OS. I won't be able to play games on my old ass veteran laptop that has seen me through a lot of bullshit.

Every day that passes I feel like I understand more this mans hatred for technology.

 

[The Last Stand]

This will screw with some compatibility on many titles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but some recent titles STILL support Windows 7.

 

[WULULULULU]

This will screw with some compatibility on many titles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but some recent titles STILL support Windows 7.

Games for Windows will remain a fucking curse, now GTA IV will barely fucking run at all.

 

[SilentDuck]

Well... off to the GNULAG, gents.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

It was a pleasure gentlemen.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

I literally won't be able to play games I paid for on the OS I paid for unless i downgrade to Winblows Spyware Edition.

There's still Mr. Goldberg's Steam emulator, and steamcmd doesn't need much besides libc and networking. There's also Win10 LTSC, but that's just until 2025. But the penguin OS isn't going anywhere.

Basically the only current browser that wasn't chromium based was Firefox.

SeaMonkey still exists. It's built off of Gecko from Firefox ESR, and still supports XUL add-ons.

all your talent's left

They didn't leave, they got replaced with cheap imports.

I pirate games that I legally own on Steam simply to have a DRM-less version in case Steam has a issue, to run them on other machines or to have modded versions run better.

Please consider buying from GOG if it's available. It's the last bastion of no bumfuckery DRM, and rumors are it's going under soon.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Try using Goldberg emulator before this happens:
https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

 

[I'm Retarded?]

PS Chromium sux, use LibreWolf

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

I honestly don't get it. With the end of XP support that made perfect sense since XP is a security nightmare (even still what I am about to say still applies). But, Windows 7 and 8.1 are relatively solid and they are still usable even 15 years later. I fucking hate how usable OSes are being dropped for no reason and there's no plan to fork the code for that userbase. It's not like you need much to run a Steam storefront nor are people that use Windows 7 or 8 going to play games that require Windows 10 or 11. I really hate this nonchalant attitude towards dropping OS support.

 

[augment]

I have never been more glad of holding on to my physical copies of PC games.

 

[Molesting the Decapitated]

I just got a new laptop this year which runs amazingly, my previous one still had Windows 7 but it was chugging horribly as the months went on so I had to toss it and buy a new one - especially since Microsoft dropped support of it. ... Almost mindblowing that Microsoft themselves drops support for their own product before a computer game service does.