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No more Steam for Windows 7 8 holdouts.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean... Windows 10 came out -what?- 9 years ago at this point. Gee, I'm getting old

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, that doesn't feel right. Windows 10 came out in 2015 and nine years ago, it was…

Oh god, no. When did the mid-2010s move so far into the past?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just now, technically.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I switched to mint because ms won't even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it's been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've got goofy Intel/NVIDIA switchable graphics in my laptop that make it a pain in the ass to use my VMs and steam. But I wouldn't trade Mint for windows ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@BrikoX I look forward to the removal of Windows 10 and 11 support next.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What makes you think they'd possibly do that?

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"upgrade to Linux to continue gaming"

If only they had figured out SteamOS...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I've been waiting since the first Steam Machines in 2011 to get steamOs. Best I can do is big picture mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It ought to tell them to "upgrade to a more recent OS" instead of being Windows-centric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Steam

Windows Centric

You do realize what platform/company we’re talking about, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, we're talking about Valve, which has a vested interest in pushing gamers towards Linux in order to protect itself from anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I think that's exactly their point. Why would Valve tell users to "upgrade" to a more recent version of Windows? Tell them to upgrade to Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But they're using Windows. It isn't telling this to Mac/Linux users.