95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It’s macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

  • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukEnglish
    379·
    11 months ago

    This is the sole reason my gaming rig is now running on Ubuntu. I have never had Linux on my personal computer before but since I was forced to update the OS anyway, I thought might aswell give Linux a shot.

    • BaardFigur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      393·
      11 months ago

      Dude, Windows 7/8/8.1 hasn’t been supported by Microsoft for quite a while now. No reason to support the platform, if Microsoft doesn’t

      • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        67·
        11 months ago

        Didn’t stop me from gaming on 7 either. I was only gaming on my windows partition so I didn’t worry too much about vulns. Nothing in 8-11 interests me so I thought I’d try all my gaming in Linux and have been blown away by how good it is. I ran 7 up until last April and the cracks had finally started to show.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          142·
          11 months ago

          The cracks were probably because you were part of a botnet for using an insecure OS for years lol

          • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            11 months ago

            It was mainly due to qt dropping support (used by OBS, I could have stayed on an old version) and Steam for the same reason but Chromium. I probably could have kept my old computer and stayed on 7 for longer if I wanted to.

            • Grabbels@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              Nice job ignoring the very real possibility that your computer has been part of a botnet for years. The botnet thanks you for your service.

              • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                I did ignore it, literally didn’t read it. You have to run code or data from untrusted sources (or be available on a network) to get exploited, and I know that computer wasn’t doing anything high bandwidth otherwise it would affect my gaming. I literally only played games on the install for a couple hours a night and my browser and other software was up to date.

        • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Congrats on joining Linux squad!

          Linux gaming got waaaaay better than in before times. Also, the system itself is a miracle for someone coming from Windows. I remember that feeling. It’s correct :)

          • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Oh I’m very aware, I’ve been running Linux in one way or another for 20 years :)

    • Postcard64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      It’s great that Linux is a feasible alternative nowadays. But it’s not like you are using Ubuntu 10.04 from 2010, right? OSs get outdated and stop being supported. That’s just the way it is.