Steam Windows 7, Windows 8 Support Loss Details PC gamers using Steam to play games on their rig must update their OS to Windows 10 or Windows 11 before the year ends to continue playing through Valve's platform. Valve, the company behind Steam, recently announced through Steam Support that Steam would no longer support Windows 7 and Windows 8 soon to secure the platform against cybercriminals and hackers. it sounds great.Steam will no longer support two old Windows operating systems (OS) soon. Dont have to worry about Windows updates, licenses, windows bugs, windows updates, jank ass xbox integration nonsense, windows updates. Now SteamOS/Linux is viable for this makeshift steam machine 2.0 thanks to dxvk and proton. jesus linux gaming is in such a different ball park now compared to back then. This was years before dxvk and proton though.
I could play a game, put it down and go to my PC and do shit, or just go about my day, then come back to it later and pickup where I left, the box wasnt doing anything else so its right where I left it. I nuked all other processes and only kept security and networking stuff on it (I did use it for chrome and kodi too).
This thing was great cuz it would be a dedicated, console like, unit with only one job: play my games. It would launch windows but I replaced the explorer.exe shell with steam's big picture mode. Yes ago I did have a dedicated makeshift "steam machine". However SteamOS on a DEDICATED unit has a lot of appeal I think, so much so I think im gonna do this with one of the extra PC's I have lying around (though I admit its mostly for giggles for me since I already have a steam deck and dont really use my TV these days anyway).
If you wanted to go full linux no a daily driver PC, a more traditional linux distro would be much more ideal. I dont think you'd want to do this with your daily driver PC machine (be it laptop or desktop).
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