Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community - eviltoast
  • Prophet Zarquon@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Steam is even helping to push more people to Linux, by ending Steam support on WIn7, this January 2024.

    I would probably have left Win7 running on several older machines, but like XP it’s become so widely unsupported that I can’t really condone using it online anymore even if the app-services allowed it. Unlike XP, there’s a lot of apps that would run fine on Win7 if supported; but like XP there’s just not much incentive for a dev to support such an old OS except as a pet project.

    Win ≥8 is awful; I’ve helped Win10 users recover from the most insanely unacceptable issues I’ve ever seen in ≥35 years of using computers, with absolutely useless official responses made in each case. I will never poison one of my own machines with something so heinous as Win10, just for the sake of a game. And other than games, I don’t see a compelling use case for Windows anymore.

    So, Linux, & holding out hopes for decent Steam action on Linux, I guess!?