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.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•1 year 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 year 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      29•1 year ago

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

      • @21CabbageEnglish
        3•1 year 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.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year 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

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 year 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)