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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because maybe they want to play games without having to check if it runs on linux?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks to the Steam Deck and proton development, these days that's pretty much limited to a few incompatible multiplayer anticheat systems. Gone are the days where a developer actually had to make a Linux build.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's becoming way less of an issue nowadays