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

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows.

The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows. In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows feature and security updates only present in Windows 10 and above.

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Well of course Steam relies on A MOTHERFUCKING INTERNET BROWSER, because the devs are so goddamn retarded it's a miracle they can tie their own shoes.

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. Fuck everything about this.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Why does Valve need to rely on Chrome? Fuck Chrome have a in-house specialized browser just for Steam man fuck this.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Why does Valve need to rely on Chrome? Fuck Chrome have a in-house specialized browser just for Steam man fuck this.

I suspect a combination of kickbacks, tech debt, sheer laziness and Millenial/Zoomer graduates from the public school system. To most anyone under 40, thinking of not using Chrome for everything is practically a galaxy-brain moment these days.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Fuck this shitty gay earth where fucking chrome runs everything.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I suspect a combination of kickbacks, tech debt, sheer laziness and Millenial/Zoomer graduates from the public school system. To most anyone under 40, thinking of not using Chrome for everything is practically a galaxy-brain moment these days.

Imagine using something like Brave with actual security features

 

[General Emílio Médici]

As much as I love Brave, they are Chromium based.

Chromium and Chrome diverge from the fact Chromium is the bedrock, while Chrome is the actual Google product with all the spyware and telemetry they can shove on it. Chromium has only the basic needed spyware and Brave tweaks it to remove that along with adding some features and support for things like their own features.

Steam is probably using Chromium, as that is the bedrock you would want to have that is less finnicky and not as much of a RAM hog. But the fact this means dropping Win 7 support is no excuse and I hate the Antichrist.

 

[Sparky Lurker]

You still can legally play Left 4 Dead 2 on the consol that originally released, but not on the OS that originally released, PC Master Race at its finest.

 

[Absolutego]

As much as I love Brave, they are Chromium based.

Chromium and Chrome diverge from the fact Chromium is the bedrock, while Chrome is the actual Google product with all the spyware and telemetry they can shove on it. Chromium has only the basic needed spyware and Brave tweaks it to remove that along with adding some features and support for things like their own features.

Steam is probably using Chromium, as that is the bedrock you would want to have that is less finnicky and not as much of a RAM hog. But the fact this means dropping Win 7 support is no excuse and I hate the Antichrist.

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.

 

[vomitusdeux]

What the fuck is the point of this? I'm livid I still use steam on win 7.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

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.

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

 

[Marsh Rabbit]

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.

I ran into this issue a couple years ago when trying to switch off of Google. Basically the only current browser that wasn't chromium based was Firefox. I'm not sure how much I trust Mozilla these days, but it really is the only alternative to Chrome. And dumbfucks still force me to use Chrome for their shitty applications and extensions because for some god forsaken reason web developers have things that only work on Chrome and no other internet browser. Fuck chromium and Chrome they are fucking plagues.

 

[Gog & Magog]

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

 

[seri0us]

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

 

[WelperHelper99]

As much as I love Brave, they are Chromium based.

Chromium and Chrome diverge from the fact Chromium is the bedrock, while Chrome is the actual Google product with all the spyware and telemetry they can shove on it. Chromium has only the basic needed spyware and Brave tweaks it to remove that along with adding some features and support for things like their own features.

Steam is probably using Chromium, as that is the bedrock you would want to have that is less finnicky and not as much of a RAM hog. But the fact this means dropping Win 7 support is no excuse and I hate the Antichrist.

I do know that, but it does run faster even then. If my 8gb ram win11 laptop can have multiple tabs open including a active youtube tab without joining the 41%, I see no reason to switch, especially with easy adblock and TOR access. And I don't trust Firefox enough to use them, so I'm kinda stuck

 

[Gamepads]

Maybe they can update TF2 instead of being stuck in the past with forced FAT32 support.

 

[Coolio55]

Why does Valve need to rely on Chrome? Fuck Chrome have a in-house specialized browser just for Steam man fuck this.

You spin wheels for around a decade and wake up in 2020 where all your talent's left and the remaining developers are all tranny stragglers.
It's telling that they had to hire some random team making a we wuz kangz walking sim to write the next half-life.
There's a bunch of good theories relating to Alyx's ending (mostly relating to Marc Llaidlaw's other books) but knowing he had nothing to do about it makes me think it's jist dumb luck.

 

[Never Scored]

*Games that originally ran on Windows 98 with 256 megs of ram now require Windows 10 to run*

Fucking lol

 

[Miller]

2024 Year of the Linux Desktop

 

[vomitusdeux]

2024 Year of the Linux Desktop View attachment 4908245

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.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Games as a service always made me wary. It does nothing but give power to the corporate whore and merchant, not the consumer who is paying. "Pre-order our game or you get it 1 week late bitch." "Use Jewgle (Jewgle being DoD contractors) or we cut you off from the products you've already paid for."

Saving everything on XHDs and sailing the 7 seas was the best decision I've made in recent years. Try to cut me off from that, cunts, I've already gotten everything I could want, and modern games keep getting shittier and more politicized by the year.