You’re forgetting that valve can also drop support for EOL versions of windows, which so far they have.
Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year
LocoLobo@lemm.ee 1 month agoYes and no, people can still use win10, it just won’t receive patches anymore. And in this particular case, my best guess is, that most people would rather use and outdated OS for a long time, rather than changing the OS altogether. Not every game is on steam, also not every non game programm is easily available for Linux. Humans are lazy.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
LocoLobo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
True, but for example for Win7 they dropped support last year I think. So quite some time.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I think that was them drawing a line on eol windows. They cut both 7 and 8.1 at the same time. Could just be the policy now.
Part of me wants them to take the opportunity to push people to switch to Linux, the other part of me thinks that will be perceived no differently from msft’s badgering about win11.
LocoLobo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That would be quite the power move, but unfortunately Steam doesn’t hold that much power alone, I think. There are still enough games that are not on Steam. As of today , Microsoft is the biggest games publisher (with Bethesda, Obsidian, ID, Mojang etc.) and there are also giants like LoL or Fortnite.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t disagree in principle, but from what I’ve heard the full screen “buy a new computer” pop-ups are pretty bloody annoying!