Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

  • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    6 months ago

    Not really Steam’s fault, their app is built in a chromium browser, which stopped supporting those OSes a few years ago. A perfect example of Google having too much control over the Internet. This is what happens when big companies are allowed to purchase their competitors.

    Edit: people in this thread are either really forgetting how much trust google used to have with basically the entire Internet. They were seen as the “good guys” for a long time.

    Or they’re forgetting how unique and revolutionary chromium based desktop apps were when they first came out. It is a colossal pain in the ass to create a modern browser, if you have a web page in your desktop app like steam does, it quickly became a very difficult, time consuming, and virtually fruitless endeavor to develop a headless browser just to sit within your desktop app when you could just go with chromium.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      And if memory serves me right, Microsoft is dropping W7, 8, and 8.1 support this year too. I love to shit on Google, but I also love to shit on Microsoft.

      Especially since W10 EOL is on the horizon.

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        A thing I didn’t consider: many steam games still support Windows 7 and 8, so… What about them?

      • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        Yes, except If cake were free and accessible to anyone regardless of silverware or plates.

        • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I hate to break it to you, but Linux isn’t as accessible as many people make it out to be. Sure, the base OS can probably run on more computers, but if you want to talk parity with what somebody needs, there’s a darn good chance you’ll run into issues.

          And at that point, you need to expect the person to learn a new operating system, and one where user experience tends to be the last thing developers think about…

      • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Why does it matter if Steam uses Chromium on Linux. It’s not like Gecko dropped embed support or anything

        • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          The alternative to Chromium-based apps is not Gecko-based apps; it is native apps, that do not require an entire bloated web engine to run.

          This is especially obnoxious with Steam since it wants to run in the background 24/7.

      • Virulent@reddthat.comEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        Nah, gog doesn’t do anything to suppory Linux. Valve is the reason Linux gaming is as good as it is. Pretty much all the games that are on gog are also drm free on steam.

        • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          Okay, you just blew my mind. How does one download installers for DRM-free games on Steam? How do you even tell which games are DRM-free? I was not able to find answers with some quick searching, just community-maintained lists of games that are ostensibly DRM-free in one way or another. But how do I verify that? How do I archive installers?