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

[Slav Power]

and rumors are it's going under soon.

Source or GTFO.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

Source or GTFO.

Y'all butthurt much over a rumor. No I'm not going to give a source, grow up

GOG posted a loss in 2021, it was covered everywhere (A). Their 2022 earnings report (chapter 3) showed that GOG had a lot of cutbacks and started posting a small profit again, but it's tiny compared to game (and merch) sales. Additionally, after their whole Galaxy initiative, the forums and community portion of the site hasn't done well, with [paid] mods not responding to requests for a long time, and smaller games having to wait in a long queue to get their updates flagged as approved.

 

[Judex Meus]

He's probably talking about this: https://archive.is/a32K0
It's due to a lawsuit by CD Projekt Red. Apparently they're not gone for good, but only available via tor.

 

[I Do Not Post]

No I'm not going to give a source, grow up

this might be the most singularly fucking retarded thing i've read all year

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

If anything, I’m surprised they are waiting until 2024 to do this. Considering Valve’s stance on digital gaming, I’m impressed it was able to still do Windows 7 and 8. It still does not make it any less disappointing that this is happening, but I now wonder if it will be time to get a Valve Steam Deck in the process.

If not, I’ll just have to either upgrade or find some good emulation downloads aside from GOG.

 

[Day of the Cope]

The people whining about Steam dropping support for Win 7 and 8 reminds me of all the people who cried about AetherSX2 not running on their 10 year old potato phone.
Those people eventually got the project shitcanned because the developer got tired of retards complaining that their Pixel 2 can't run it.
Hate to break it to you, but the consumer is a fucking ass and bending over backwards for them is a fools errand.

 

[Pissmaster]

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Ah yes, I'm sure this 1.86% of Steam users who still use abandoned operating systems will be very upset that Valve simply doesn't want to cater to a promile of insane lunatics who just cannot let go of the fact that operating systems become obsolete and will fight until the very end for Valve to change their mind and continue supporting that 1.86% of users and spending unnecessary amounts of money and effort into doing so.

Or alternatively, the Steam Survey is manipulated by Valve so that they can excuse killing off perfectly good operating systems because they are being paid my Microsoft to do so.

This is like complaining that someone cannot play Steam games on their Windows 98 machine with a Pentium MMX and Voodoo 2 graphics, you have a perfectly fine and working computer and those pesky corporations want you to throw it away. Hardware, as well as software becomes obsolete with time. Stop living in the past, let it go and move on.

Brave doesn't update on Windows 7 anymore, either. I figure it must be for the same reason. NVMe drives are also a no-go. I was a holdout until just last year, but the walls are really closing in on Windows 7 chads.

 

[Chimplord1997]

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

Devils advocate, valve is kind of waging a cold war against Microsoft to try and get people into Linux gaming. Microsoft is eventually going to move to an app store model for their basic OS where you can't run apps not on their store. If steam is in this environment, that loses valve insane amounts of money and possibly their entire business.
They're trying to force peoples hands to get them on Linux for this reason. This is why valve has been trying to Ironman Proton and Linux compatability as a whole. They're just trying to create an environment in which their business model can survive, if you hate the m$ antichrist you benefit as a side effect of this cold war.

 

[Judex Meus]

Devils advocate, valve is kind of waging a cold war against Microsoft to try and get people into Linux gaming. Microsoft is eventually going to move to an app store model for their basic OS where you can't run apps not on their store. If steam is in this environment, that loses valve insane amounts of money and possibly their entire business.
They're trying to force peoples hands to get them on Linux for this reason. This is why valve has been trying to Ironman Proton and Linux compatability as a whole. They're just trying to create an environment in which their business model can survive, if you hate the m$ antichrist you benefit as a side effect of this cold war.

This is almost exactly the same as what Apple did starting with OSX 10.15 (Monterey?) where they introduced codesigning, where you have to be a certified developer and run it through a little program that makes sure it doesn't do anything Apple doesn't want it to do. You need to codesign your application if you want to distribute it on the app store. If you don't codesign your apps, then Apple makes it a bitch and a half to run.

Windows has a similar thing with the Windows Store, but the worst that MS will do is give you a little popup saying that they couldn't verify the developer of the app if you try to run it (which you can dismiss and disable easily). It makes a lot of sense now that MS is trying to go the same way Apple is and have even more control over the apps that run on your machine.

 

[ZMOT]

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.

after they sold out to the chinks and were bullshitting about it, let them carry those dipshits.

 

[Chimplord1997]

This is almost exactly the same as what Apple did starting with OSX 10.15 (Monterey?) where they introduced codesigning, where you have to be a certified developer and run it through a little program that makes sure it doesn't do anything Apple doesn't want it to do. You need to codesign your application if you want to distribute it on the app store. If you don't codesign your apps, then Apple makes it a bitch and a half to run.

Windows has a similar thing with the Windows Store, but the worst that MS will do is give you a little popup saying that they couldn't verify the developer of the app if you try to run it (which you can dismiss and disable easily). It makes a lot of sense now that MS is trying to go the same way Apple is and have even more control over the apps that run on your machine.

It's why Microsoft is trying to implement Linux directly into windows 11. They want desperately to keep you on their plantation where you can only do things they want you to do. Eventually it'll come down to a point where they'll feel comfortable flipping the switch and supporting only apps on the windows store. They don't even care if the original dev uploads it so long as it's on the store. There's plenty of freeware apps being sold by pajeets on the windows store that had nothing to do with the development of the application.

 

[Hiram Clarke Hustler]

Jesus you guys are dramatic. If you're that much of a schizo just make or download one of those no spyware Windows 10 ISO's it's not that difficult. Or just use Linux proton/wine/lutris works pretty good for most games that don't have a spyware level anti cheat.

 

[Samuel Hyde]

Pretty sure at this point Mozilla's oft-revised version of Gecko is the only open-source browser architecture anyone could use besides Chromium. The internet browser world is becoming dangerously homogenized. I would have thought the industry learned something from the massive tech debt Microsoft had to wrangle with for years, after the entire professional world using Internet Explorer 6 became an albatross around the entire tech scene's neck.

Its not just about Chrome vs Gecko. The internet has become synonymous with HTTP/HTTPS. Its a badly broken standard and even worse technology. Even the ACM has been critical of HTTP/2 [0]. We have to start using alternatives otherwise we will always be in this cycle of moving over to the next web browser and native applications will never be developed.

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278

 

[Jacknife]

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I might out myself as the biggest nigger ever here but I have been using GeForce now for playing video games and as soon as their client runs on Linux(it does so now but badly I've heard) I am gonna switch over to Linux completely and don't have to a shit about compability anymore

 

[Staffy]

The sign of globohomo is infesting even the OS of computers.

Jesus you guys are dramatic. If you're that much of a schizo just make or download one of those no spyware Windows 10 ISO's it's not that difficult. Or just use Linux proton/wine/lutris works pretty good for most games that don't have a spyware level anti cheat.

This is going to happen in windows 10 too in just a matter of time. You'd be shortsighted if you think it won't.

 

[TerribleUser09]

Just to remind you guys that nobody cares about your opinions. No developer creates apps for Win98SE just because some basement dweller won't upgrade his PC 'coz "surveillance". Fuck you. Why would any developer sustain support for obscure and abandoned OS like Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 because a fraction of users won't upgrade OS for autistic reasons.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/

Fucking 1% uses Windows 7. More ATM's are running Windows 10 than this long-forgotten system. Fucking kiosks in McDonalds use Windows 10 but some losers with literally no life gather on 4chan and here whining that company doing every-fucking-thing-for-profit doesn't care about wasting money for 1% of retards.

Fuck you.

P.S. I hope you don't dislike me. I am kind person.

 

[Hiram Clarke Hustler]

The sign of globohomo is infesting even the OS of computers.

This is going to happen in windows 10 too in just a matter of time. You'd be shortsighted if you think it won't.

People would then figure out ways to make bloat-less versions of future Windows versions as well it's really not as big of a deal as you guys are making it out to be.

 

[Hiram Clarke Hustler]

Just to remind you guys that nobody cares about your opinions. No developer creates apps for Win98SE just because some basement dweller won't upgrade his PC 'coz "surveillance". Fuck you. Why would any developer sustain support for obscure and abandoned OS like Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 because a fraction of users won't upgrade OS for autistic reasons.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/

Fucking 1% uses Windows 7. More ATM's are running Windows 10 than this long-forgotten system. Fucking kiosks in McDonalds use Windows 10 but some losers with literally no life gather on 4chan and here whining that company doing every-fucking-thing-for-profit doesn't care about wasting money for 1% of retards.

Fuck you.

P.S. I hope you don't dislike me. I am kind person.

Dead on, companies could care less about these schizo "muh privacy" ass faggots. There are countless ways to upgrade operating systems without sacrificing your privacy you are just lazy/stupid or want to simply complain about it.

 

[Spud]

Please consider buying from GOG if it's available. It's the last bastion of no bumfuckery DRM

You say that but I can buy Hitman 3 on GOG which is a always online game that requires an Internet connection to fully play

 

[Faceless Whore]

For anyone getting into Linux, I would suggest any distro that is popular.
For dipping in your toes: Ubuntu, PopOS, and Linux Mint should be the ones you try out. There's also ZorinOS if you want something that looks pretty much like Windows 10.

I second PopOS (gay name, great system, made by a company selling Linux PCs and laptops but installable on any system) and Mint in that order. I don't recommend Ubuntu because I've heard it's gone to shit over the years, but I don't use it anymore so can't be sure. (Pop and Mint are based on Ubuntu, so you get all the benefits of Ubuntu without the horseshit, so might as well use them anyway.)
If you have a very old PC with 2 GB of RAM or less there are lighter-weight distros like Lubuntu you can try. (If Lubuntu is too much google "lightweight linux distro" and good luck you're on your own.)

These are all "works out of the box" distros that come with basic shit you need, just like a Windows install but without the Candycrush bloatware. Also many Windows programs have Linux versions, so go check if programs you use are Linux compatible before assuming you're stuck with some shitty Linux alternative. For example Firefox/Tor Browser, Chrome/Chromium/Brave/Vivaldi, VLC, and OBS are available on Linux.

They have graphical installers that aren't any more difficult than Windows to use. If you're competent enough to install Windows from scratch you can install these. (And if you're too scared to install an OS just give a handjob to a greasy tech bro behind the nearest Best Buy and have him do it for you.)

Spoiler: Unrecommended dual boot fagging

It is also possible to dual boot, which means you have both Windows and Linux installed on your PC and you can switch between them, but this comes with its own set of technical problems (it takes a certain amount of knowhow to do right, and Windows could decide to assrape your Linux system for laughs at any time, among other things), so I don't recommend it for Windowsfags who don't know much about computers. But if you're willing to take the risk you can blow GeekSquad Steve and have him do it for you.

In any case bigger community = better maintenance and support, so whatever you choose, choose something popular. If you choose NiggerFaggotOS don't cry when it's buggy, doesn't get fixed fast enough, and no one helps you with problems because the only people using it are you, one tranny developer, and three Bronys in open marital relationships with their dogs.

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