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Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Limonene@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It might not fuck over people as bad as their abandoning XP did, but its still really fucking shitty that they abandon OS's like this.

Simply because it means people who have games they used to be able to play on old machines, now cant get those games anymore, cause the service itself wont run on it on those machines.

They should at least fork off a special legacy version that lets people download their old games on their original platforms.

but they dont want to do that, not because of supporting it, because they dont want people to remember how sleek, slim, and fast steam used to be.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 30 points 11 months ago

How is this shitty? Windows 7 isn't even supported by Microsoft anymore.

If you were looking to preserve games for playing on old computers, you chose the wrong platform.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Did you know that Steam didn't even run on DOS?

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