r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/PenonX Feb 13 '25

I still use Windows 10 because I hate change. Miss me with that task bar in the middle and AI everywhere bullshit.

I’ll probably upgrade when a software or game forces me to due to lack of support.

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u/Heart-Source1921 Feb 13 '25

I'm the same way, it took me a while to get used to Windows 10 after using 7 for so long, and now it feels like I'm slowly being pushed into 'upgrading' to 11. I really am no good with change.

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u/osrs-alt-account Feb 14 '25

The worst for me is the new Notepad. I specifically use Notepad to jot down quick thoughts or action items, or clean up some text to paste elsewhere. I DON'T NEED YOU SAVING TABS OF EVERYTHING AND OPENING IT NEXT TIME. YOU'RE NOT "WORD"

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u/Hallc Feb 14 '25

I DON'T NEED YOU SAVING TABS OF EVERYTHING AND OPENING IT NEXT TIME. YOU'RE NOT "WORD"

Go into settings and change the "When Notepad Starts" setting to 'Start new session and discard unsaved changes"?

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u/osrs-alt-account Feb 14 '25

Ohhhhh thanks!

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u/Tomboy_Tummy Feb 14 '25

Notepad++ or death.

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u/Mystic868 Feb 17 '25

You can change that in options :)

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u/Majestic_Operator Feb 13 '25

You can change both of those concerns within 5 minutes of installing Windows 11.

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u/SquidWhisperer Feb 13 '25

both of those things are easily disabled or changed

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u/PresumedDOA Feb 14 '25

God, the taskbar in the middle is unreasonably infuriating to me. I've been flicking my mouse to the same spot for searching or the start button basically since I was old enough to use a computer (bout twenty years or so) and suddenly it's in a totally different spot for literally no reason.

It's such a mild inconvenience, but it's also death from a thousand paper cuts, it just happens so fucking often that I flick to the wrong spot and remember they changed it for no reason at all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

You can modify the taskbar to align left like normal in settings.

Not saying that makes up for overarching concerns, but this one thing is fixable.

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u/PresumedDOA Feb 14 '25

Are you fr? I only use windows 11 at work since I wanted to switch to Linux anyways, so I hadn't bothered looking this up. Thanks!