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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[–]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