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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)
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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Second ChromeOS flex. Its what my school put on all the shitty aging macs

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like ChromeOS in schools is a big part of the current problem with students reaching college in a tech-illiterate state

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I agree. School admins don’t care. They want the most control over the hardware issued to students and google’s stack is admittedly much better than what you can do on windows and mac.