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Comment by mysterydip | Hacker News Reader

Opportunity for other stores (especially GOG) to continue supporting old versions of Windows.

My expectation is that they won't explicitly announce an end to support, instead the launcher will update and then cease working on these older versions of Windows.

It happened to me on a 2013 era Macbok laptop I had around for testing stuff and is my only mobile computer. I had Steam with soem old games like Half Life on it and my son could play on it when bored. Steam like a piece of shit of software bricked itself so one day you could no longer paly your games.

Sorry I did not had the energy to calm down and research how to undo this shit.

Did you update your macbook? Any MacOS install 10.15 and later can't run 32-bit apps, which half life is.

Anyways, get a copy of bootcamp and black mesa, then enjoy half life in all of its updated source 2 glory

Honestly , I hate the laptop and the OS, I only had it because I was forced to, for testing stuff. The DVD drive is also broken so I would need to waste time finding a way to install Windows from USB(and Win installer is always a bitch complaining of missing X and Y), then find all the drivers.

I just wish a simple thing, I close a laptop for half a year and when I open it it should work, same if I open a 20 years old PC and want to run Doom it should not prevent me to do it because some developer used Chromium for it's interface and now they are too lazy to provide paying customers a way to use the shit they bought/rented.

The same reason that steam is dropping support is a reason for those other stores to not have support as well.

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