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Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Actually it was because of the chromium browser integrated into steam under the hood - it was no longer updated for win7.

Same reason XP got discontinued before that.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    and this was totally important, and wasnt possible on some legacy firefox engine. what a load of horseshit. and of course they fucked up steam skin support as well.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    So you're telling me that Valve should create a new branch of the existing steam client using an alternative browser engine explicitly due to dropped support on a platform that (I would argue) less than a fraction of a percent would use in 2025 and beyond? Along with maintenance, security patches (on an OS that will never receive any new official patches for current vulnerabilities) and feature parity for at least the steam library?

    If you're that dependent on hardware/software combinations so far removed from the current development status quo, you should have the technical expertise to install DRM-free games on your obsolete OS that should never be online anyway.

    I don't think anyone at the company nor customers with even a modicum of understanding of software maintenance would endorse that. It would be a gross waste of engineering time and resources. Hell, explaining this to you in such detail should be lesson enough on why software companies filter user suggestions.

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