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.

  • Waluigis_Talking_ButtplugEnglish
    70·
    10 months ago

    They’re eventually going to release SteamOS onto desktop platforms, but for now you can just install Linux.

    SteamOS has so many deck and handheld specific features that it’s not really a good OS for desktop hardware. HoloISO is something you can install, though, as long as you don’t have a Nvidia card, which is just SteamOS packaged in a way that let’s it run on other hardware

    • NindelofochoEnglish
      30·
      10 months ago

      SteamOS has a normal linux desktop, its only in deck mode where everything is deck specific

    • BoastfulDaedraEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      I think StreamOS has been around longer than the Steam deck, actually; but I’m sure it’s been tailored somewhat for the hardware.

      • Cupcake1972English
        10·
        10 months ago

        Yes, but the previous version has been based on Debian.

      • Waluigis_Talking_ButtplugEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago10 months ago

        SteamOS was scrapped and rebuilt. SteamOS 2 and 3 aren’t related at all.