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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Steam is literally DRM. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a store and content downloader. Buy games that don't implement steamworks and you can copy the install folder to keep playing on windows 7 just fine without logging in.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Steam isn't DRM, it's a game storefront/downloader that offers developers the option of DRM when they publish their game.

Plenty of games have zero DRM, and plenty of games do. I wish they'd make it clearer which do and which don't, but that's a separate issue.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.

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