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

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have evidence it is unmaintained?

Last commit years ago?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.