Steam to drop support for windows 7 and 8 in 2024
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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.