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Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm not a fan of Win 7/8 being called "ancient"

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The tech industry moves fast. Win 7/8 are ancient in tech terms

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the MS Dos PCs I regularly have to maintain and provide safety to. They still live.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Something can be ancient and still function for purpose. We've uncovered ancient pottery intact.

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When Win7 reached EOL we were using Linux 5.4

That's pretty ancient.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

But the kernel going 3.11 and not stopping at 3.10 was just yesterday... merely 10 years ago.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

Sytems that don't receive security patches anymore well deserve that title. You'd hardly keep it airgapped if you care about Steam updates.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In computer time, it is pretty ancient.

"This could take like hundreds of nanoseconds... It could even take one. Whole. Second! 😱" - Enzo Matrix, Reboot

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What value is there to using windows 7 nowadays. I genuinely don't understand

[–] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago

It's the last Windows that could look this comfy:

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Inertia

[–] gingernate@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ancient! What does that make me!?

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

antediluvian

[–] sleet01@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Starting to see an absolute flood of those. A literal deluge!

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

a Cosmic Horror

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The ancestors. According to the new gen we are the ancestors.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Ancient... ME is ancient, XP is old, 7 is almost old (you still see it here and there).

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I'm not ancient, you are ancient!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There wasn't even a DOS 5 version of Steam ☹️

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s time to install Nobara on those machines.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Personally, I dislike that Nobara is relying on patched Mesa and kernel versions. This is unnecessary risk of instability. AFAIK Bazzite doesn't do that.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Friendly Reminder: You can install any KDE based Linux distribution and probably have an equivalent or better experience with security and regular steam updates.

Compatibility isn't really an excuse in this case, as Windows 7/8 will no longer be compatible with the most troubling games anyway. You'd be best off on a modern system with proper security patches.

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