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Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Does it also pull support for old Linux distributions?

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

They don’t support new technologies (Wayland), why would they drop support for old ones?

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Steam has only ever supported the latest Ubuntu LTS and Steam OS.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It still works the same on any distro with SystemD. Side note, I have seen people getting Steam to work on Void and Artix.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Steam and I run Alpine

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. Do you have a potato computer or do you just like a minimal system?

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a minimal system on my Thinkpad T440p

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Nice, I have a T420 myself. I love that machine. I was running Peppermint OS for a while. Until version 11, Hasn't been the same since 10. The update from 10 to 11 kind of took all the magic out of it for me. Now that machine runs EndeavourOS.

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just use Windows 10 or Linux

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

lol win 7 probably still can run more games than Linux

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

My Steam Deck runs most games just fine.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Linux can slightly run more tho,since windows 7 is eol.

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[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does it also affect SteamCMD?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Probably not. The main culprit is probably the bundled, Chromium-based web renderer (CEF), not Steam itself.

[–] Auster@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plenty of alternative stores that don't require a launcher, so still possible to sideload games and therefore, 7 and 8 are not quite dead yet. (side note, but Vista is still also a decent system for gaming)

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like to invoke the old magic of installing from a disc.

[–] Auster@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of disc-based DRMs. With how moody some were, I'd need to dump the ISOs, mount them with WinCDemu, and keep them mounted for as long as I kept playing those games. 😬

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