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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    145·
    11 months ago

    We’re a GoG-first house, here.

    I get that steam dropping win7 was unavoidable based on their shitty choice of browser base, but the alternative was only Firefox and we know how Mozilla-the-app went.

    Anyway, GoG gives us control over our purchased copies, and I like that.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      There was a time when software didn’t need an entire browser engine to run. We used to call them native applications.

      Although looking at how small the pre-Windows 10 customer base is I imagine Valve would have considered it not commercially viable to continue supporting however easy maintaining the codebase was.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Why pay for DRM when there’s a legal, user-friendly alternative? GoG is the best. Proof that we can still have nice things.

      I don’t go as far as to boycott Steam, but GoG is my first choice.