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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:20:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 19:29 this Monday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:49 this Monday (GMT):
>> >
>> > It's no surprise --Valve announced their intentions way back in late
>> > 2023!-- but now it's finallly happened.* The newest versions of Steam
>> > will no longer run on Windows 7 or 8 (or MacOS 10.13/10.14). So if you
>> > still have a Windows 7 gaming PC, well... say goodbye to any
>> > Steam-launched games on that system.
>> >
>> > Time to upgrade those old Win7 machines to Linux, I guess.
>> >
>> > * as of November 5th. Okay, I'm a bit late with the announcement ;-)
>> > https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4472730495692571025
>
>> I'll miss Win7.
>
> Me too even though I still have a disk image backups and VMs. I prefer 
> W2K though. That is the best Windows version ever!


Well, Win7 has better compatibility with stuff..
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