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.

  • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    11 months ago

    I bet, we don’t find a single Windows 8 user who uses Steam on that system. Similar applies to Win7.

    • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 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·
          11 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·
            11 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.

    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Wrong, I used Steam under Win 7 from time to time until December. For some games it doesn’t really matter and I use old machines for fun.