Thanks to you all guys this has been a good informative thread, so thank you all, guys!
To answer about the "old OS" issue, I remember when Windows 95 came out:
It required a brand new, top of the line PC; was a pain to install and worse to use - from a DOS user point of view.
Steam can drop Win7 if they want, but many games they sell don't actually need that.
That makes me think... Why would I use Steam to begin with? It's just an overhead. Adds nothing to my gaming. Achievements? Oh, please!
Win7-11 don't add anything that I need or would like to have. Except being required by some games. Would be happy on XP except for 4GB limit.
Actually Win7's only feature to entice me is the looks, but it doesn't have actual windows transparency neither allow 3rd-party themes.
I don't need any kind of security or privacy. I'm used to reinstall, to have two PCs; anyway browser, site, ISP and neighbor will all spy on me.
Honestly, as my life is now on the mobile phone, loosing it will be much worse than being hacked on the PC.
Running a non-UEFI old system without WiFi or Bluetooth, not even camera/microphone, is a plus.
There's plenty of cheap small boxes and notebooks, people will be increasingly using old specs PCs, thus old OSs.
MS don't want us to install W11 on a 486 or even 6700K, don't want us to run without account logged / online all times.
I believe many people will turn to privacy mods but most will prefer to use a legitimate, even if old, OS than a pirated and/or hacked one.
Users will give up their security and privacy to get the updates, or will be barred of updates, even using their PCs.
So, users give away the control of their PCs to get Steam's comfy DRM-ness, and then are kicked out and lose their games.
That's why I like older stuff.
And because I'm getting older myself, certainly. <--
Probably the major issue!
Yes, older people tend to have issues with learning new things, changing habits, keeping previous aesthetics and ethics, etc.
pardon me poetry
pardon me poetry
Soon we'll be told when,
and how much, to spend.
Later too much.
And then we may end
being just slave
labor buying
back our time,
which we already paid in freedoms.
Just curious to test Win11 Privacy, Tiny11, etc. Such stripped mods are unusable for games, but good for browsing on Opera Lite.
Tiny7 I found around the net at the time apparently had a nasty little friend built in.