Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1st, 2024 thanks to the squeeze from Google Chrome

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[–]cant_even 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fuck Google: If ever there was a company that deserved to be broken up, it's "DARPA's Darling".

Their "Chrome" browser has weaponized 'web-standards' in the most anti-competitive manner possible.

Google is merging/buying out "the web" with their monopoly-behavior.

Worse is their bullying of "web standards bodies". This is specifically aimed at neutering Mozilla and other companies who throw up obstacles to their dominance.

Google wants to eliminate the possibility of users avoiding their data-vacuuming, ad-spamming and universal tracking. That's what's behind their endless propaganda about 'speeding up your web experience'.

Once they "succeed", all 'unapproved' extensions, 'users' and browsers will just be "unable to connect" with what was the greatest communication and data-sharing system in human history.

[–]Rah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Windows 10 is a resource hog. Not to mention that you are the product.

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Windows 10 LTSC is a decent option, it removes Windows Store, Cortana, some telemetry, and other bloat. After some tweaking Windows 10 is pretty good (at least resource / usability wise, I know it still sucks for tracking & privacy). Now Windows 11 on the other hand is absolutely terrible, they've made some awful UI changes and are putting ads and other crap right into the OS.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree, but in this case, it seems the problem isn't Microsoft, it's Google chrome

[–]Rah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If they need Chrome support, its Steam's fault to depend on it

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the users fault. By continuing to sub to a platform that screws you over

[–]Gravi 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Goddamn it, my laptop I use for uni is on w7 not fcking w10, might as well go Linux on it l8er on.