Windows 8 is over 10 years old and was EoL years ago. No distro is maintaining that level of support outside of corporate and even that’s in the specialized more expensive custom contracts.
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candyman337@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not really Steam’s fault, their app is built in a chromium browser, which stopped supporting those OSes a few years ago. A perfect example of Google having too much control over the Internet. This is what happens when big companies are allowed to purchase their competitors.
I wish someone would build a FOSS browser. It would be quite the endeavor though.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody needs Steam’s “support”. They just need Steam to unlock their DRM for games that they have been playing for years and Steam has now broken.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
👌👍 whenever you say
Disposable_User@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, right… it’s my fault that Valve decided to use Chromium crap in their client.
Fanboys don’t even question themselves if it didn’t made sense to have a lite version of the client without the browser, you know, to play games! (͡•_ ͡• )candyman337@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Never said it was your fault, I explicitly said it was Google’s doing but ok be mad if you want to
Disposable_User@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know you never said it was my fault. I was being sarcastic! What you said was that, it wasn’t Valve’s choice, but this is wrong. It is their fault. It’s was their decision to use an external software which is out of their control. It was their decision, so everything good/bad with this decision it will always be their fault.
What I’m trying to tell you, is that people are quick to give credits to Valve, but when they do shit (and I’ve been using their services for so long, that I’ve seen plenty of it), it’s rarely their fault.
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve used Steam since before Chrome was a thing. So you happen to know what they uses before? Internet Explorer?
thehatfox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Google (or any other browser vendor) never forced anyone to rely on a web browser engine to develop desktop applications.
This is what happens when developers make trade-offs for convenience at the expense of control.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No they never forced them but they said “hey here’s this really awesome sandboxed platform that runs on almost any os, and it’s a modern browser!” That’s really enticing to a platform like steam where most of their app is web based. Steam isn’t a desktop application, it’s a hybrid application that needs a web browser. Do you know how hard it is to upkeep a modern browser? There’s a reason it’s pretty much only chromium and Mozilla making browsers. It’s not laziness, it made sense, and Google was the only one making anything like that at the time for developers to use.
Once Google had the market share, they started making changes that they knew would affect everyone using their platform, and that’s how they wanted it.
LWD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Well, it’s a hybrid application but the vast majority of the UI is rendered in a browser. In my opinion, this is often the lazy way out when it shouldn’t be. Native applications should be much faster than web applications…