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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

mint will be stuck on xorg for the foreseeable future.

Mint will use xorg as the default session until 2026, where it is projected that wayland will solve most if not all of its showstoppers.

Mint's cinnamon DE is built off of Mutter, GNOME's compositor, so all it means is that Mint will be doing the same thing that it has always done, been what GNOME could have been if it hadn't reinvented itself.

Mint is a workflow extremely similar to what most users have experienced on Windows and specifically caters to Windows users or users coming from proprietary operating systems.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

2026 is a hell of a wait though considering new drivers and software will start targeting wayland in that time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is, but Mint has always prided itself on adopting new technology late once all the dust has settled. Besides, it's just for Wayland being the default (and most likely deprecating the X11 session), a usable wayland session for cinnamon will most likely be available come 2025.

There's always POP!_OS going in hot with their COSMIC compositor, so people who want to adopt wayland can do so when POP!_OS does and still have that "Ubuntu(TM) experience minus Canonical" distro.

If you want to see a hell of a wait, you should check out RHEL's deprecation timeline.