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

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

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.

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