if your name is still truthful, a mate of mine just recently in the last few years upgraded from windows 7. he was a true believer to the last

I might keep one machine with Ghost Spectre around, but otherwise, I'm entirely on Linux.

It's not that big a problem for secondary old systems. $15 bucks gets you support until 2032, this is fine for grandma's email machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb1KtEUSqMM

and for newer ones you can always get around the requirements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3isXSBTUs

Except Valve supports operating systems years past when Microsoft drops support for them.

Yeah but what's wrong tho

Now that Microsoft is no longer going to support Windows 2000, I'm really looking forward to the day when you're me.

The day where all of the Win 2000 games that valve sold you no longer run on the Win 2000 gaming computer you built with your college savings and you have to build a new computer with money you don't have, but it costs like five grand so you're like "What? Just let me play my games!".

And valves stance is "Screw you, just get Win7".

But you're like "I hate Windows 7, it sucks! And I shouldn't have to build a new computer just to keep playing my games!"

And then valves all "Too bad."

Then you're like "But these were all sold to me as Win 2000 games!"

And valves like "They're Win7 games now."

And then you're like "... Really?"

And then you go to the forums seeking empathy and everybody on the forums is all "Screw you, you're obsolete and old go crawl in a hole and die!"

And you're like "wtf?"

And then I'm all "Hahahahahahaha. Now you know how I feel! Empathy has been forced upon you!"

Good times.

引用自 Win7User：

Now that Microsoft is no longer going to support Windows 10, I'm really looking forward to the day when you're me.

The day where all of the Win10 games that valve sold you no longer run on the Win10 gaming computer you built with your college savings and you have to build a new computer with money you don't have, but it costs like five grand so you're like "What? Just let me play my games!".

And valves stance is "Screw you, just get Win11".

But you're like "I hate Windows 11, it sucks! And I shouldn't have to build a new computer just to keep playing my games!"

And then valves all "Too bad."

Then you're like "But these were all sold to me as Win10 games!"

And valves like "They're Win11 games now."

And then you're like "... Really?"

And then you go to the forums seeking empathy and everybody on the forums is all "Screw you, you're obsolete and old go crawl in a hole and die!"

And you're like "wtf?"

And then I'm all "Hahahahahahaha. Now you know how I feel! Empathy has been forced upon you!"

Good times.

Valve supported Windows 7 long after it got replaced by Windows 10. So by the time Valve stops supporting Windows 10, Windows 12 will be a thing.

Just enroll for free ESU. It's easy.

Extended security updates for free.

Also no support doesn’t mean it stops working

this would be the thing that finally pushes me towards linux, or maybe steamOS.


also win10 support was extended to 2028 pretty recently

Switch to linux and let windows screw itself by trying to force 11 and force new hardware. requirements

don't agree to the ai, co-pilot, spying, cloud copy of your data, etc


Given the number of people that bought switch 2, my hope in humanity is almost zero though

Yeah, so?

You think windows 11 is bad, wait till 12 at the rate things are going.

The day where windows is a monthly subscription, the day you give up the right to all your data via a eula, the day of on system ai censorship, and the day of bricking windows pcs is probably coming sooner or later.

So far everyone can enroll into the ESU for free if they want to, not to mention that LTSC 2021 will get updates until like 2032

Application support will likely stick around for very long term as I don't expect Google to drop off support early in order to not anger the corporate users
Also 5000$ for a PC? lmao. you can have a very nice gaming PC for around 600$ or less and have a solid gaming experience.
you overpaid for that 4790K junk this much? I used that CPU before as well and dumped it in 2019 thankfully

Are you ok, OP? That internal dialogue you posted is a bit whacky. I honestly cannot imagine anyone actually having such a convo with themselves.

Me, I keep using Win10 til I get a new pc and it'll have the newest Win on it. Which won't be in the upcoming years.

People do realise that just because Microsoft stops supportin it, this won't mean that Steam will drop support for it. Or did people on Win7 already forget that Valve supported Win7 much longer than Microsoft did?