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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I, for one, am glad that from a security standpoint that companies like Valve are stopping support and giving patches and stuff to people using such outdated operating systems. If you are forced to use an old OS for work because of software limitations, that's one thing, but there should be no reason you use an old OS as your daily driver if you ain't getting any more security updates and patches. I don't care how long it would take to reset everything and get things set up again, upgrade your damn OS when it's not being supported anymore!

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta wonder how that affects older games that haven't been updated since....

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

When no longer supporting Ubuntu 16.04: No big deal, just update, duh...

When no longer supporting Windows 7/8: How dare you!

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

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