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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

It uses Chromium on Linux too. It uses DRM on Linux too.

The real answer is GoG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You can usually just copy the game files

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