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Diabolikal1 t1_je6se65 wrote

But like, why not just do windows 10? There is literally no difference from 7/8.1 to 10.

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Martipar t1_je6w7pt wrote

There's tons of differences. There's plenty of games that run fine on Windows 7 that won't run on Windows 10. I have a Windows 7 laptop for older games purely because Windows 10 isn't suitable for all the games I play. Windows 7 also supports SecuROM which isn't supported in Windows 10 at all so older disc based games that won't run on Windows 10 will also run on my "gaming" laptop.

Windows 7 also has a different Samba version and can connect to XP machines for file sharing which Windows 10 can't do. In fact there's lots of differences I can list, the differences are far from cosmetic.

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Diabolikal1 t1_je6x2s9 wrote

Right we were talking strictly steam here, as far as that goes, there is no difference.

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Martipar t1_je6ybgu wrote

There are, for example GTA 1 and 2 work just fine on Windows 7 but won't run on Windows 10, I have them both on Steam and while i wouldn't say I play them much (usually loading them up to remind myself how far we've come) it is a difference. I am sure other games have similar problems but most of my old games are on my GOG account and they do things differently.

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Diabolikal1 t1_je6yv67 wrote

Fair enough, I was not aware of these problems. Is it not possible to just play in offline mode after they drop support?

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Martipar t1_je70efm wrote

Maybe, we'll have to wait to find out. Personally it's not a huge problem as I have another computer and most of the games I play on my laptop are via GOG but there will be times when I want to play a game I own on Steam and I can't unless i'm at home.

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rct1 t1_je6yw3g wrote

Make a VM.

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Martipar t1_je714vh wrote

For what? A Windows 7 VM on one of my more modern PCs would still have problems logging into Steam after the end of this year. A Windows 10 VM on Windows 7 would be worse than using Windows 10 natively on one of my other PCs.

I don't get your comment.

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[deleted] OP t1_je6tjbg wrote

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Diabolikal1 t1_je6tzrt wrote

Doesn't bother me a bit, Microsoft dropped support for these OSes. So it makes sense that the further out their security gets, software are less likely to continue support because they are no longer deemed safe to be online.

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