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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
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this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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Lmao i only knew they could stop supporting windows 7, people uae more windows 7 than windows 8
Launching 8 for the first time was almost as bad as time I first experienced vista, so I can understand there being fewer 8 users.
WTF is Windows 8.1?
The un-fucking of Windows 8 release
It actually was a pretty useable OS most of the time
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.
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.
What are the features that 10 has? A different separate control panel?
Only lasted a year though, before Windows 10 came.
Windows 8.1 was a major update that undid a lot of UI updates that people didn't like after 7
I had already uninstalled and replaced it with 7.
Soon Windows 10.1
The fix for the god awful TileOS decision.
I didn't conceptually hate the UI there was just so much room for improvement in implementation, if I recall correctly. I was only using a Windows machine for a short time during that era though.
That's why the Win10 start menu was better.
Tiles where it's appropiate and you could even nake the start full screen to top it of.
And then the Windows 11 came in and replaced those sweet flexibility with generic row of icons on top with the app list now in the separate menu and the bottom of the menu is wasted on ads and other garbage
Geez thank you Microsoft, you guys definitely went backwards with this one
Not like there were sponsored tiles on Win10 (at a minimum 1803 when I started to use Windows professionally and saw lot's of desktops)