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.

  • unknown@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    11 months ago

    People are lazy as fuck. Provided it plays their games they don’t give a shit about features updates, patches, bug fixes etc.

    They probably have no ideal what version of windows is even installed on their machine.

    • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      11 months ago

      That’s true, but their apathy or ignorance is a threat to any networked device. There’s definitely an argument for “my device,y software, my rules”, and technically you can run windows 7 as long as you want, but Valve shouldn’t be perpetually expected to support deprecated software either. In their case specifically, if would be hard to ensure their anti-cheating software isn’t being circumvented at the operating system level, meaning the experience of everyone on any OS would be lowered by continuing to support a 14 year old version of Windows.