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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They don't need to think about display servers. Just update and it will resolve itself. You're overcomplicating things and scaring people away from Linux.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

thats what i said.

except recommending unmantained software is bound to cause issues for a layman user, regardless of what it is.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have evidence it is unmaintained?

Last commit years ago?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it needs bits and bobs to keep working as is. last commit is an indicator but not a great one by itself.

it aint getting new support, and security patches are taking their sweet damn time. compare that with projects that support wayland. also take a look at what a lot of xorg devs have been working on.

my point this whole time is that a distro stuck on it will start to reflect that.

i feel like this isnt going anywhere so have a nice day.