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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We lost Yuzu because of a Windows 7 user. Whoever that guy was, he deserved this.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's surreal reading comments pining for win7/8. i am getting old.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's surreal reading comments pining for win7

Oh no they've been in a coma since 2012!

I jest, but seriously I was in HS personally while whinging about 8 and wanting 7 back after my laptop auto updated on me like a jackass. Its actually the event that lead to me learning IT!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Windows 3.1 was the first one my family had.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just use Windows 10 or Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just use ~~Windows 10 or~~ Linux

Ftfy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

couldn't you just run games through linux?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

For games that could run on Win7 and 8? Not really

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it also affect SteamCMD?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Im still preparing myself mentaly to jump to linux the next year with the out of service of 10. Its hard because stop using adobe as graphic designer... I hope we have get real linux alternative at that moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If you want to migrate to Linux, I would strongly suggest you set up a dual boot, and start playing with it to gain experience. Being able to switch back to something you know is a massive benefit when you are still learning.

While Linux has come a very long way, you are sure to experience some hitches along the way. If not because of Linux itself, then because you are not familiar with how to do "that one thing" on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You can install Photoshop on Windows and copy it to Linux. It's a very involved process but it's doable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZQV5CBsGE

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

People will mention Gimp, but check out Krita as an alternative to Adobe

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe in you! Personally, when I find someone charging me subscription prices for something that should have a one-time fee, I flip the bird and run to the nearest competitor, but I can't speak for your line of work. For my amateur needs, open source alternatives have gotten the job done, and I wish you the best.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

As a profesional i dont have an alternative. Anyway i use the 2023 ver. Pirated. I dont like all that IA integration.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (2 children)

RIP Win7. You did what no other Windows could do. You had functioning components.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Win 7 really was the best of them all.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Does the CLI still work? If so, you could download and play all the Windows 7 compatible, DRM-free games in your library just fine. Alternatively, if you already had these games installed, they'll work fine without launching Steam first.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The Chromium base, which is what Steam is built upon, itself isn't supported on Win 7,8. Can Valve work upon it to make it backwards compatible? Maybe. Will it be a pain in the ass to maintain? Absolutely.

Also, if you don't want to upgrade to Win11, you can make a 2nd partition for Linux and enjoy your games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is one of the things, that’s not only a colossal amount of effort to maintain, but also a colossal waste of money. Backporting security is expensive. Backporting features to an old is is even more costly. With the W7 platform shrinking into obscurity, it just doesn’t make sense

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who still uses windows 7 or 8? Who actually uses it for gaming?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I was using 7 right up to the point last year steam said they'd stop supporting it.

I run a computer into the ground because I'm broke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I was doing the same thing (I too run my computers into the ground, though I also didn't want to move to Windows 10 because of all the analytics at the OS level sending data to them MS added to that version, plus and frankly, it worked so I couldn't be arsed).

I also switched some time ago, pushed by Steam's impending end of support plus more and more stuff coming out without Windows 7 support.

However I took the dive and switched to Linux rather than Windows 11, to a great extent prompted by people here reporting good experiences gaming on it (since I already have quite a lot of expertise in it and I mainly just use my PC for gaming) plus it's part of a broader set of changes to avoid enshittification (such as replacing my TV-Box with a Mini-PC with Linux) I'm doing at home and am very happy with the result.

It's less heavy than Windows, even booting faster and seems to have extended how long I can keep going before that computer is totally run to the ground, though for that it also helps that once I started upgrading by changing the OS, I also went and did a few partial upgrades of the hardware, like replacing my old CPU with an equally old one but twice as powerfull - which used to cost 200 bucks but now was 17 bucks second hand - a more powerful graphics card and a more modern SSD disk for the games partition (it's actually a modern M.2 SATA on a 2.5 inch housing adaptor, and that's as fast as SATA ever got and to get better than that you need a PCIx M.2) - basically I did the upgrades I could do on the cheap without changing motherboard and everything else that depends on it (like memory and a newer generation CPU) and which would still be compatible with the Windows 7 boot partition I still have around (though I haven't actually been booting it). Since I went from Windows 7 to Linux rather than Windows 11, none of the hardware upgrades was wasted in just making up for the extra bloat on Windows 11 and the machine definitelly feels a lot more performant.

As for games, most just work, about 1/3 need extra tweaking to work well or work at all and only 1 or 2 so far I couldn't get to work at all.

Curiously at least one game - Borderlands 2 from Steam - that didn't work on Windows 7, works on Linux. Also I can now run games whose minimum Windows version is 10 which I couldn't before.

Also since all non-Linux games are running on the Wine compatibility layer, Linux is actually better backwards compatible with older Windows and DOS than Windows itself, which is nice for Patient Gamer types like me.

I think that with Linux in it my PC is actually compatible with more games than it was with Windows 7.

I seriously think it's one of my best decisions in years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Which Linux distro are you using? I'm also considering switching because of Windows 10 going EOL, but there are a lot to choose from.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

I sincerely hope you weren't doing anything important with that machine.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are a lot of reasons to not want to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11, so it's likely those people who defiantly choose not to move on. In the case of Windows 11, it also requires newer hardware just for TPM support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I could not upgrade from 7 to 11 because the hardware was bad, yes. I did try to upgrade before this also, but it also didn't want to upgrade to 8? Or maybe it was 10. I forget why it refused to do those two systems though.

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