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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Epic is dropping Win7/8 support
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:14:13 -0400
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Or rather, the Epic Game Store app will no longer support those
operating systems. The 32-bit version of Windows 10 is also getting
the axe. 

Which - given that Windows 7 is now 15 years old (and 3 years out of
support from Microsoft - is understandable. As much as I'm a fan of
those older operating systems (and honestly, wish support for them
would be longer), I get why companies feel the need to deprecate the
older OS.

But - as much as it grinds me gears to do so - I have to give credit
to Epic for /how/ they are handling this transition. Because while
they are no longer supporting those operating systems, they are NOT
preventing you from running EGS on them. If you have an older version
of EGS running on Windows7, it will keep running. No, you won't get
anymore updates, and if there's a bug or security issue, don't expect
Epic to fix the problem. But if you are just using it to launch games
on an older computer, it will keep working.

This is how it should be. It's very different from Valve, which
actively disables Steam from running on older operating systems, and
even if you do get the client running, its unlikely you'll be able to
use it actually launch games.

Of course, the optimal solution would be just to make the games
available as self-installing executables, so players wouldn't HAVE to
use a launcher, even after the reseller stops supporting their OS. Oh,
if only (GOG) there was some reseller (GOG) who provided so helpful
(GOG) an option! But alas, there isn't. ;-P

Still, at least Epic didn't do the most-awful thing and force people
to abandon their older computers entirely...