Comment by rightbyte
2 years ago
Is that year to year or month to month? Could not find any note on that?
But then again the share increase compared to share of Linux users, is quite large.
Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7 which I would name MS' last good OS.
> Is that year to year or month to month? Could not find any note on that?
"Steam conducts a monthly survey to collect data", says it on the page.
> Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7 which I would name MS' last good OS.
Probably because steam for windows 7, 8 and 8.1 are EOL
> As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
>Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7
I think it's interesting that there is that many people still on it.
Mainstream end of life was almost a decade ago, Steam dropped support for it, etc. Is there anything that actually still supports 7?
> Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7 which I would name MS' last good OS.
No DirectX 12 support for Win 7. And even games that don't require DirectX 12 now usually support Windows 10 and up. Sometimes because they don't want to test on older OS, but Windows 10 has legitimate API improvements that are worth taking advantage of.
On top of that of course the general security reasons not to use an unmaintained OS release.
>Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7 which I would name MS' last good OS.
Above it, the survey says that Win 7 64 bit is at 0.68%.