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.

  • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Not anymore since it no longer works.

    I was still using Steam on Windows 7 as late as last month. Losing access to Steam was one motivation to finally upgrade my computer.

      • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        That’s actually just what I did. New PC runs Manjaro Linux. So far all the games I’ve thrown at it work just fine.

        Maybe I should have done that with the old PC, but I’m lazy and Windows 7 was working well enough.

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          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.