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Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Sounds like an excellent time to throw Linux on them. Or give them away to those who will do so.

[-] allo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Wow there was a windows 8?

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

And 8.1. 8 was a worse experience on anything that wasn't a native touchscreen.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

You're ancient!

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