Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. - eviltoast
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.

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.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    10 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. I ran 7 up until last April and the cracks had finally started to show.

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      10 months ago

      The cracks were probably because you were part of a botnet for using an insecure OS for years lol

      • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        10 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.

        • Grabbels@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Nice job ignoring the very real possibility that your computer has been part of a botnet for years. The botnet thanks you for your service.

          • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I did ignore it, literally didn’t read it. You have to run code or data from untrusted sources (or be available on a network) to get exploited, and I know that computer wasn’t doing anything high bandwidth otherwise it would affect my gaming. I literally only played games on the install for a couple hours a night and my browser and other software was up to date.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Congrats on joining Linux squad!

      Linux gaming got waaaaay better than in before times. Also, the system itself is a miracle for someone coming from Windows. I remember that feeling. It’s correct :)