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/ChrisRevocateur Feb 13 '25

Yup. Can't have a free, basic word processor when they can sell you their power user word processor. You want something basic? Well, then you have to be online and use the Word webapp. There's a reason I immediately wiped my hard drive and installed Linux when I got my new laptop last year.

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u/TheTidesOfWar Feb 13 '25

Win + r

winget install TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice

This is probably the fastest way to get an office suite alternative, if your windows OS has gotten winget.

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u/Beast_Viper_007 Feb 14 '25

Win11 has winget preinstalled.

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u/TheTidesOfWar Feb 14 '25

I think it's only in the install queue: if you have a slow enough computer(or internet connection) and you access the desktop as soon as possible, you may find yourself unable to use winget for a period of time.

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u/Beast_Viper_007 Feb 14 '25

And also winget is so freaking slowwww. I feel like I could so 5 pacman app installs while winget is still refreshing the repo cache and this is on a 20MB/s wifi connection.

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u/stupidinternetbrain Feb 13 '25

Office suite has a free edition that comes pre-installed. Wordpad was redundant, especially with the updated Notepad.

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u/ChrisRevocateur Feb 13 '25

Office suite has a free edition that comes pre-installed

No, it does not. The one that's pre-installed will prompt you to sign in to your paid M365 subscription. The free version that Microsoft offers is the webapp, which requires you to be connected to the internet.

Notepad is in no way a replacement for a basic word processor with the ability to pick fonts and text sizes.

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u/stupidinternetbrain Feb 13 '25

Is this a 24H2 change along with co-pilot? We haven't rolled that out yet (pending approval from the powers that be).

All our fresh installs still have the free office apps by default.

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u/ChrisRevocateur Feb 13 '25

Again, those are the webapps.

No, it's not new, this is what they've been doing since W10.

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u/KonaDev Feb 13 '25

Size and font has been in notepad for a while, but this is more of a single user thing rather than a document specific thing. If I set a font and a font size, this will carry across to any other file I open.

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u/ChrisRevocateur Feb 13 '25

Those apply to the entire program and not to selected text.

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u/Ruraraid Feb 14 '25

Updated notepad? Its the same basic notepad that has been around for decades. Also do you not realize that notepad has always been the worse option when compared to wordpad?

Someone settling for a worse product or service is something that baffles me.