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.

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.

  • VilianEnglish
    192·
    11 months ago

    Lmao i only knew they could stop supporting windows 7, people uae more windows 7 than windows 8

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        11 months ago

        The un-fucking of Windows 8 release

        It actually was a pretty useable OS most of the time

        • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          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.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          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.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        11 months ago

        Windows 8.1 was a major update that undid a lot of UI updates that people didn’t like after 7

        • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            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.

            • Otherwise_Direction7@monyet.ccEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              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

              • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                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)