95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It’s macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

    • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      6 months ago

      The un-fucking of Windows 8 release

      It actually was a pretty useable OS most of the time

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        6 months ago

        Yup, it was a very solid OS. It’s similar to how people remember XP, but what they really remember is XP Service Pack 2 which was the rock solid version.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        I used 8.1 all the way until around 2019, when I finally relented and switched to 10 (on 11 now). Take Windows 7 and 10, and do a “greatest hits” edition, and you have 8.1. It was basically 7 with some features that went into 10 mixed in. A fine OS for daily driving.

        I would have used it for longer; only upgraded because you’d run into random little issues and bugs with various programs cause no one used it.

    • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      6 months ago

      Windows 8.1 was a major update that undid a lot of UI updates that people didn’t like after 7