Well W7 is practically 15 years old, and already stopped receiving updates itself. It’s not really up to Steam to keep it up and running
evenespecially if Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, it would just get more and more problematic, and they also had to let it go at some point.I don’t think anyone cares about W8 though, even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.
To be fair, it’s not just a steam thing. My understanding of the situation is that chromium is dropping win7 support so anything using chromium will stop working on older operating system.
Steam uses the Chromium embedded framework in case anyone doesn’t know. This renders the web pages in the Steam client. As mentioned, there’s no point in Valve maintaining the code base themselves when upstream Chromium drops support for 7.
This is similar to when browsers dropped support for Flash. Adobe stopped developing it and the major browser vendors removed their in-house flash plugins.
TBF an online Windows 7 copy is just asking to be Hacked given Microsoft support ended in 2020 and security updates after that required a paid subscription which ended in 2023.
Well the last good windows is dead.
Once windows 10 is dead I am full Linux, I have already begun the transition, any time I have to install a new Os it’s now fedora 40.
No reason not to go now.
Time, my last hold out is my main gaming rig, I have it set up exactly as I want it and I don’t want to rewrite the entire thing.
Valid
Pulls support or bricks the program on those systems? There’s a difference.
We lost Yuzu because of a Windows 7 user. Whoever that guy was, he deserved this.
how?
He got upset at the Yuzu developers for dropping support for Windows 7, and after throwing a tantrum in a GitHub Issue report, he directly emailed Nintendo and their legal team with a massive word salad directly linking to Yuzu. Multiple times. Then within around a month or two Nintendo initiated a lawsuit.
Fuck them then, it’s even worse when you think of the multiple ways you can update or switch to a Linux distro
couldn’t you just run games through linux?
It’s about Steam itself. Not about the games. Steam has a Linux build while the article is about the Windows build.
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