WYP
News Guru
Valve's Steam client no longer supports legacy Windows Operating Systems.
Read more about Steam dropping support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
Read more about Steam dropping support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
Steam has dropped support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
If people don't want to get new Windows, PopOS so far has been a great Linux distribution. I personally prefer it over Ubuntu after recently switching on my secondary device.
Otherwise stick to Windows 10. 11 is just worse imo.
Otherwise stick to Windows 10. 11 is just worse imo.
Dawelio
Active member
Why is it worse? And isn't 11 more "required" for newer Intel and AMD CPUs respectively? Due 11's task scheduler or whatever it was called works better than 10 with the newer hardware.
Dawelio
Active member
Really? I thought it was the way I explained above... I get the TPM requirement which you stated. But thought that W11 was due to it's scheduler being better for Ryzen 7000 and Intels hybrid CPUs.
I think the Scheduler does improve things, but there are more negatives that counter it.
Personally I run Win 11 and never had issues except with HDR once in a while.
ImprovizoR
Member
Pop!_OS is wonderful.
I have no issues with Windows 11, but I don't think that its existence was entirely justified. I understand the need to improve security, but why do they keep changing things that worked perfectly is beyond me.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Windows 11 could've been a feature update for Windows 10, The whole higher number naming scheme is outdated, MS should've just stuck to "Windows" and done incremental updates for features, Security and performance and if they needed to do an update that actually required a brand new version, And not just a higher number to please the fat shareholders, Just call it Windows <current year>.
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Dawelio
Active member
So does this mean you're still on 10 then? ^_^
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Nope, I have a 13900K so Windows 11 is kind of mandatory for the updated scheduler, Plus Windows 10 is a little poo compared to Windows 11 when it comes to HDR and I like my HDR gaming ^_^
KingNosser
Active member
While as a consumer OS that is all well and good but in the server/office space in different ways that isn't practical as it then forces upon that company issues it could otherwise avoid and cost.
Which is why things went crazy when people started getting forced upgrades to a newer OS and it breaking everything people would turn on the PC and welcomed to a different OS that only caused stress and need to rollback.
Thou i do understand your point, but it's not really any different to any other OS on the market in terms of name schemes.
What they need to really do imho in order for me to be happy is have the old teams in place that did all the hardware testing on site at microsoft as since now they have changed to totally AI with regards to updates stuff breaks and while relying on beta testers in the community to try new features, it simply isnt practical as something breaking badly in a mass of stuff on a forum just isn't going to get the attention.
They simply need to return to doing it correctly themselves and spend some of that massive profit they make, the greed these companies have it insane, at the end of the day if there was a very viable option for PC gaming across all luanchers most of of us are gone instantly.
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