Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not anymore since it no longer works.

  I was still using Steam on Windows 7 as late as last month. Losing access to Steam was one motivation to finally upgrade my computer.

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not switch to Linux? There is several ones which works well with steam

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    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because maybe they want to play games without having to check if it runs on linux?

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      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks to the Steam Deck and proton development, these days that’s pretty much limited to a few incompatible multiplayer anticheat systems.

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    • toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s actually just what I did. New PC runs Manjaro Linux. So far all the games I’ve thrown at it work just fine.

      Maybe I should have done that with the old PC, but I’m lazy and Windows 7 was working well enough.

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• wolfshadowheart@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Win 8 was listed just under 1%

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• Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wrong, I used Steam under Win 7 from time to time until December. For some games it doesn’t really matter and I use old machines for fun.

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• AzureRT@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used to be a Win8 user who had Steam

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