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.

    • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idEnglish
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      10 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
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        10 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.

    • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Honesty for a lot of older games gog is the answer. A lot of older games just don’t run well or at all on proton.

      Though you could also just get an old console to play them on and never worry about updates breaking things again.

    • Virulent@reddthat.comEnglish
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      10 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
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        10 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?