Steam to drop support for windows 7 and 8 in 2024
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Is to be expected. Why would they support it when Microsoft does not?
Well shit. I use 7 because it's stable. It won't be updated against my will and a kernel update won't break everything installed on my machine. Guess I'll start looking into how much you can strip out of 10.
Keep me posted, I'm gonna have to make that same journey. I was due for a new rig for a while now, but I didn't really have a reason to upgrade because everything I wanted to play still ran.
I looked into custom ROMs, but I'm not plugged in to a community that produces them and I trust internet randos only slightly more that MS.
Ditto for debloat scripts.
I ended up wiping the SSD I use for games and dual booting vanilla W10. Then went through and uninstalled what I could and tweaked the registry or group policies for the rest. The latter were all easy google searches.
Right now, it's got no Edge, no Cortana, and no updates. We'll see if it stays that way or if I missed an updater.
10 is fine if you use a custom ROM. That or use Linux which Steam supports.
Unless you're a single-player type of person, Linux may not be the best platform. Mileage of multiplayer games vary due to anti-cheat. Some like Apex Legends support Proton. Others such as Destiny 2 do not.
I made an earnest attempt to get into Linux years ago. It was my primary machine for 6 to 12 months. Linux is not for me.
Use Steams custom spin like they do on their stuff.
I have Linux Mint on an ancient laptop and it runs just about anything I'd want to play. I don't play shooters or anything really graphics-heavy, though, mostly turn-based stuff. I don't know if I'm confident enough with Linux to put it on my desktop, but I guess I'm going to need to be real quick like.
You can check out https://www.protondb.com/ and see if what you play is supported. Like Draklor said, anything with anti-cheat is probably out.
The answer is Windows 10 LTSC (Long Term Support Channel). It's created for cooperations and governments for specific use cases, like ATMs or other machines. It's stripped out of almost anything, including the microsoft store.
But the ISO-images aren't freely available, nor are the licenses. But you can find the ISOs and the tools for it in the mydigitallife forums.
Might be time to look at Linux if you really hate 10. I only made the switch because Windows has fucked me over more than once.
I always laugh at people that hate on the new version of Windows, as if any of the older versions were any better. When XP came out there were 98 SE die-hards. When 7 dropped there was the XP die-hards or maybe it was 2000 if you really wanted to be a rebel. When 10 dropped, there was the 7 die-hards. 11 dropped and now it's the 10 die-hards.
If you're worried about the new version of windows because you don't trust Microsoft as a company to not give all your information to the government, track you and then create new advanced AI programs that control you like Skynet or something PROTIP: Stop using Windows altogether. Use something like Qubes with Fedora or Whonix. It's laughable hearing people complain about Windows 11 that are still using 7 as if that wasn't a privacy nightmare when that came out in its day either. Just upgrade your windows already or stop using windows.
It was not all like that, windows vista and windows 8 have not been all that well received and most skipped them. Up to windows xp it was upwords quality and then vista came and it was shit, then windows 7 came and it was a better version of XP. If enough people skip windows 11 they do walk back their more radical changes, or at least they used to.
I have a Windows 11 machine. The only difference seems to be in the UI. I basically reverted that with 3rd party tools. It is annoying that you have to do that.
I don't know what radical changes M$ has made. It's probably under the hood. Obviously server admins would have more to worry about.
The problem is that old hardware and software 'suddenly' doesn't work anymore or has significant performance decreases on the newer Windows versions, or when mandatory updates are introduced.
Your machine could be running flawlessly and then suddenly a compulsory update drops and a key piece of software starts bugging out.
Up until Windows 10, there wasn't spyware and telemetry embedded in Windows. Is also dodjt have remote Shut offs and mandatory updates.
wasn't 2000 just a business only OS?
2000 was definitely marketed to businesses, but I think a bunch of people switched to it after the ME clusterfuck before XP came out.
Yes. It was pretty much an OS for the dot com boom-type business crowd
No, at one point that literally was the neckbeard OS to use even for gaming. I remember it well. Cause ME was ghey basically. The idea was that 2000 was basically ME without the ghey so 2000 was the best until XP but lots of users kept with 2000 cause XP was ghey until like SP2 or something.
Windows ME was conceived and launched in just six months, literally just backported a bunch of win2k features onto a win98 base because otherwise there wouldn't be a product launch in time.
And it fucking shows.
Windows 2000 was Windows 98 SE with a nicer default font and minus the crashing.
No, Windows 2000 was based on Windows NT. It has a completely different lineage to Windows 95/98. Windows 2000 became Windows XP, and the 95/98/Me side was abandoned.
Yes, a kernel that didn't suck. But most people don't care what a kernel is.
Windows 7 is too old. Windows 10 has matured enough. Like people said it is "stable." Microsoft probably calls this no longer getting updates.
Sticking to every other version of Windows is probably a good idea. Running Windows XP still, not. It matters how old the OS is.
Yay, I already cant afford a new PC and now I wont even be able to play games on my old one anymore.
Oh fuck. This is not good a good precedent gentlemen.
Wait till we are forced to Windows 11. That thing has advertisements while booting up.
Switch to Linux.