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Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago

Does it also pull support for old Linux distributions?

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

Not directly but I'd think they'd pull support for older system packages & kernels, which would eventually affect you. There's not really much of a reason not to upgrade your Linux distros though.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They don’t support new technologies (Wayland), why would they drop support for old ones?

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Steam has only ever supported the latest Ubuntu LTS and Steam OS.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It still works the same on any distro with SystemD. Side note, I have seen people getting Steam to work on Void and Artix.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I use Steam and I run Alpine

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's pretty cool. Do you have a potato computer or do you just like a minimal system?

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I have a minimal system on my Thinkpad T440p

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nice, I have a T420 myself. I love that machine. I was running Peppermint OS for a while. Until version 11, Hasn't been the same since 10. The update from 10 to 11 kind of took all the magic out of it for me. Now that machine runs EndeavourOS.