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.

      • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
        31·
        11 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.

        • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          It’s good for new games too! With Lutris I can even install Windows games with Proton on Linux, or choose my own Wine setup. I think Heroic Game Launcher does the same.

          Best of all, no internet connection is required once a game is downloaded, unless the game specifically demands it. You can save your installers locally and keep them forever, never needing to phone home. If push comes to shove, install a VM of an old OS, and it’ll run just the same. Connecting old OSes to the internet is potentially a security risk. And, as we see here, Steam ain’t gonna work on old OSes anyway. You’re going to need to pirate the games you already bought if you want to play them again in 20 years.

      • Virulent@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        11 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
          1·
          11 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?

      • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        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
          11·
          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.

      • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

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

        • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
          64·
          11 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…