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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Steam didn't refund any of the cost of the games their DRM rendered inoperable on my Windows 7 PC. They happily took my money 1 week before dropping support.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's on you. They extended support to that legacy os far beyond it being end of life.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is important information they left out, but it could have happened while 7 was still supported by MS.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's on them. I don't want "support" I wanted them to disable their DRM before they abandoned Windows 7.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you're hanging onto windows 7 because your computer isn't suitable for later versions, I suggest you move to Linux so as to be on a modern reasonably secure operating system. Windows 7 machines are becoming too likely to be part of a bot farm

You can run steam on Linux

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I actually have an alternate boot that runs Linux. I have Windows 7 PC precisely to be able to run most amount of games, including older games.