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it is kinda wild that people abandon Windows 7 because of Steam and not because Microsoft stopped patching it several years ago
I don't think Steam actually recommends any distro since some time anymore
People don't care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.
Even IT people don't give a shit about security until it's way too late. Source: getting out of a job where the median age of a server is around 3-4 years old with no updates and runtimes hard installed outside repositories.
I think this is just kind of a side effect of capitalism.
If it's costing them in the short term, and the results aren't evident or won't be seen until the long term, they almost always won't do it.
No, it's education.
Definitely. You see it across all aspects of life: basic misunderstanding of risk everywhere.