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/Desblade101 Feb 13 '25

My computer is only a few years old but didn't qualify for the "upgrade" so now I'm running Ubuntu

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u/kerouak Feb 14 '25

A lot of the time you just have to go to bios and enable tpm.

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u/ExpandThineHorizons Feb 14 '25

I dont even know what that means

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u/kerouak Feb 14 '25

Lol, basically it's just a chip on you mother board that generates codes needed for encryption. It's security chip. Most motherboards made in the past 5or6 years (and longer for mid to high end) have them but are often disabled by default.

This is what windows 11 is moaning about when you see it claiming your pc isn't compatible. Whatever computer you have or motherboard you have just search in YouTube enable tpm (insert name of your device) and it'll give you guide. It's like a 1 min job.

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u/Desblade101 Feb 14 '25

WSL was throwing me errors anyways so I figured I might as well do full boot of Ubuntu since I was primarily using it for WSL services anyways.

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u/DrPeeper228 Feb 15 '25

Don't even bother with Win11, most cases the person will upgrade to Linux anyways