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