2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It might not fuck over people as bad as their abandoning XP did, but its still really fucking shitty that they abandon OS’s like this.

    Simply because it means people who have games they used to be able to play on old machines, now cant get those games anymore, cause the service itself wont run on it on those machines.

    They should at least fork off a special legacy version that lets people download their old games on their original platforms.

    but they dont want to do that, not because of supporting it, because they dont want people to remember how sleek, slim, and fast steam used to be.

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      11 months ago

      How is this shitty? Windows 7 isn’t even supported by Microsoft anymore.

      If you were looking to preserve games for playing on old computers, you chose the wrong platform.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        because there are games that people fucking own that don’t run on newer platforms, that they should still be allowed to fucking play and not have defacto taken away from them?

        How is that hard to understand?

        I swear to god the absolute short sightedness of gamers. If this prevented you from playing one of your games you’d be here spewing shit and fire and brimstone over it.

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          11 months ago

          It’s. Not. Your. Game.

          You’re buying a license which is subject to conditions decided upon by the developer, publisher, platform, and others. If you want to own a copy of the game, don’t buy it on Steam.

          Downvote all you want, reality isn’t changing to match your feelings. Stop supporting DRM or quit bitching while simultaneously strengthening the system you are choosing to ignore.