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.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Steam would be smart to package their steam deck OS as a dual boot installer for PCs. Boot right into steam when you want to play games.

    • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They’re eventually going to release SteamOS onto desktop platforms, but for now you can just install Linux.

      SteamOS has so many deck and handheld specific features that it’s not really a good OS for desktop hardware. HoloISO is something you can install, though, as long as you don’t have a Nvidia card, which is just SteamOS packaged in a way that let’s it run on other hardware