So my laptop has 7 and server 2016 dual booted, and I booted to the 2016 install, and appearantly the October 2nd build switched to Chromium 126, which means no more updates for stock 7 and 8.x, but at least Valve is not actively forcing the update on people's machines if they are running 7 or 8.x, as far as I know.

I preffer DRM free. No hassle there.

Edited October 4, 20241 yr by tekkaman

8 minutes ago, tekkaman said:

I preffer DRM free. No hassle there.

Lucky for myself, I hardly play games anymore anyway. Not enough time to. And the only game I am really interested in is Doom 3, which will run on Windows 2000 and up. I really wish I could daily drive 2000 again, but I would want to do it without the extended kernel. If only someone would port Mypal or something back to vanilla 2000...

On 10/3/2024 at 3:35 AM, TheFighterJetDude said:

So my laptop has 7 and server 2016 dual booted, and I booted to the 2016 install, and appearantly the October 2nd build switched to Chromium 126, which means no more updates for stock 7 and 8.x, but at least Valve is not actively forcing the update on people's machines if they are running 7 or 8.x, as far as I know.

It's in beta phase atm, but the end of updates is near

Latest Steam client switched to Chromium 126.0.6478.183. So Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not automatically update to the new Steam client.