Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes

alessandro@lemmy.ca · 19 days ago

Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 days ago

Cars have an expected lifespan of like 20 years, operating systems don’t.

Windows 7 came out with very early support for efi boot which took explicit effort to get to work. At this point most OEM machines out there don’t even support the legacy booting mode. That is ancient by tech standards.