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.