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If you're a power user willing to spend some time with it, migrating to Win 11 has very few drawbacks. Once you change everything about it to a degree when it doesn't look or behave like the vanilla installation, it's actually very decent 😉.

For more practical advice, I'd recommend starting with ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack, simply to make sense of the brain-damaged "modern" UI. Then the registry tweak to enable the old full context menu by default, and at this point you can take a more usual and leisurely "new OS" path depending on your particular needs.
 
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One of the Advantages of Steam is its ability to support older and/or lower end systems. By removing 7 your forcing them to go to 10. Try to find legitimate copies of windows 10, it is not easy. Windows 10 home on Newegg is 300. The older machines won't work with Windows 11. Valve is telling all the people with older machines to buy new systems, (if they want to continue to play all the games they purchased over the years).

I hope this won't impact the gamers on a budget.

It won't effect me, I have several new machines. (and waaay too many old ones.... it might be a problem)
 
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Sluggotg said:
One of the Advantages of Steam is its ability to support older and/or lower end systems. By removing 7 your forcing them to go to 10. Try to find legitimate copies of windows 10, it is not easy. Windows 10 home on Newegg is 300. The older machines won't work with Windows 11. Valve is telling all the people with older machines to buy new systems, (if they want to continue to play all the games they purchased over the years).

I hope this won't impact the gamers on a budget.

It won't effect me, I have several new machines. (and waaay too many old ones.... it might be a problem)
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You can modify the windows 11 installer to install on "unsupported" hardware, rufus actually has a couple of options boxes where all you have to do is click them when you're creating your bootable media. Those two boxes get rid of the TPM etc requirements, and makes it so you can create a local account instead of going through hoops to not use a microsoft account, basically it turns it into a windows 10 like install. The issue is that you need to download and patch the installer for the twice a year service packs on your computer as Windows update on 11 may not let you install them natively on its own since you are on "unsupported" hardware.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement
 
Sluggotg said:
One of the Advantages of Steam is its ability to support older and/or lower end systems. By removing 7 your forcing them to go to 10. Try to find legitimate copies of windows 10, it is not easy. Windows 10 home on Newegg is 300. The older machines won't work with Windows 11. Valve is telling all the people with older machines to buy new systems, (if they want to continue to play all the games they purchased over the years).

I hope this won't impact the gamers on a budget.

It won't effect me, I have several new machines. (and waaay too many old ones.... it might be a problem)
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Sure, because all the huge effort valve put into making steam run on linux well enough for them to put out a gaming device based on that are completely useless.
People are used to windows and I get that, but if you want to keep gaming on an very old system you do have to compromise.
 
Yup, Steam runs on Chrome. Linus Tech Tips team ran into this issue with Apple Xserve 3, 1 they installed an old version of Steam. But it said it would expire after x days is there a workaround for that?
 
Sluggotg said:
Valve is telling all the people with older machines to buy new systems, (if they want to continue to play all the games they purchased over the years).
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Probably not. Valve is currently working to get older games such as Nuclear Strike working in Proton/WIine.
If anything, Valve is telling all the people with older systems to upgrade to Linux. - which, incidentally, is not all that different than what Microsoft says. They do now give instructions on how to install Linux. Why else would Microsoft provide that?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2105336/microsoft-tells-windows-users-how-to-install-linux.html
 
danwat1234 said:
Yup, Steam runs on Chrome. Linus Tech Tips team ran into this issue with Apple Xserve 3, 1 they installed an old version of Steam. But it said it would expire after x days is there a workaround for that?
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Steam doesn't use Chrome, they use the source code Chromium to roll their own version. Chromium 110 and beyond deliberately blows itself up if you run it on Windows 7/8/8.1. People have already rolled versions that work perfectly fine, but I don't Valve is going to do that. I might spin up a Windows 7 instance just to see if I can massage Steam's UI into working on it.
 
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