It’s great that Linux is a feasible alternative nowadays. But it’s not like you are using Ubuntu 10.04 from 2010, right? OSs get outdated and stop being supported. That’s just the way it is.
Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 5 months ago
This is the sole reason my gaming rig is now running on Ubuntu. I have never had Linux on my personal computer but since I was forced to update the OS anyway, I thought might aswell give Linux a shot.
Postcard64@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dude, Windows 7/8/8.1 hasn’t been supported by Microsoft for quite a while now. No reason to support the platform, if Microsoft doesn’t
JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t stop me from gaming on 7 either. I was only gaming on my windows partition so I didn’t worry too much about vulns. Nothing in 8-11 interests me so I thought I’d try all my gaming in Linux and have been blown away by how good it is.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The cracks were probably because you were part of a botnet for using an insecure OS for years lol
JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It was mainly due to qt dropping support (used by OBS, I could have stayed on an old version) and Steam for the same reason but Chromium. I probably could have kept my old computer and stayed on 7 for longer if I wanted to.
Allero@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Congrats on joining Linux squad!
Linux gaming got waaaaay better than in before times.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I’m very aware, I’ve been running Linux in one way or another for 20 years :)