Well they also launched a full month earlier than they anticipated, because they didn’t want their launch to compete against Starfield. Sounds like they had some tough tradeoffs. The ending definitely does fall apart a little bit, but they are quickly releasing patches. It’ll get there eventually.

Steam Deck is excellent for work travel. Easy to set up and play in bed at a hotel.

As some people in the comments mentioned, it’s because Steam itself relies on Chromium on the backend. And Chrome is dropping support for Windows 7/8.

That being said, if you have a machine connected to the internet you really should be on Windows 10/11 or Linux at this point.

It’s pretty risky to be running an unpatched and unsupported version of Windows these days.

It’s available to test out currently, but based on what I’ve read it’s still pretty buggy at the moment.

It will probably be at least a couple more months before it’s ready if I had to guess. They’re making pretty constant and regular improvements outside of that though.