Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.

Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WTF is Windows 8.1?

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The un-fucking of Windows 8 release

    It actually was a pretty useable OS most of the time

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, it was a very solid OS. It’s similar to how people remember XP, but what they really remember is XP Service Pack 2 which was the rock solid version.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used 8.1 all the way until around 2019, when I finally relented and switched to 10 (on 11 now). Take Windows 7 and 10, and do a “greatest hits” edition, and you have 8.1. It was basically 7 with some features that went into 10 mixed in. A fine OS for daily driving.

      I would have used it for longer; only upgraded because you’d run into random little issues and bugs with various programs cause no one used it.

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      • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What are the features that 10 has? A different separate control panel?

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    • BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only lasted a year though, before Windows 10 came.

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  • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Windows 8.1 was a major update that undid a lot of UI updates that people didn’t like after 7

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    • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had already uninstalled and replaced it with 7.

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    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Soon Windows 10.1

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The fix for the god awful TileOS.

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    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t conceptually hate the UI there’s just was just so much room for improvement in implementation, if I recall correctly. I was only using a Windows machine for a short time during that era though.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s why the Win10 start menu was better.
        Tiles where it’s appropiate and you could even nake the start full screen to top it of.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Launching 8 for the first time was almost as bad as time I first experienced vista, so I can understand there being fewer 8 users.

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