i hope you do realize that windows 10 came out in july of 2015.
that means in about ~8 months windows 10 would be a DECADE old. roblox sunsetting support for windows 7 and 8.1 (both of which are really old and outdated, and aren’t as good as windows 10 or 11) isn’t a bad decision. people have had years to upgrade their PC’s from windows 7 to at least 10, and if they are too naive to do so, then thats their problem, not robloxs. also roblox shouldn’t have to worry about supporting a dated software build anyway.
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Not sure exactly for what reason they’re removing support for it, but could be to further optimize the experience of all the other ones. Roblox is a flexible platform. It’s built not for one use-case, but for every single one. That’s why I love what they’re doing, and if they had decided to cut access for less than 1% of ALL the active users, then that’s OK with me. Especially with every other good feature they’ve added, this one must have been worth it.
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you are actually glazing atp bro, defending windows 7 and 8.1 when they are insecure and old as hell, just doing this for nostalgia now arent yall lol
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Totally. We need more power on both sides, developers and players, otherwise things will never evolve as we would like them to.
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A truly sad day for the 7 people still developing on their mom’s old work laptop
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That is all I have to say.
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DirectX 12 is my educated guess for why this is happening, those OSes don’t and can’t have it. This may be the same reason why Chrome(ium)/Electron, Firefox etc. dropped support for pre-Windows 10.
I’m still on Windows 8 (but switching away soon), it’s pleasant and I have it set up just the way I want it.
The Metro start menu (as opposed to the context-menu like one on the bottom left) has grown on me because it’s a grid of icons, sort of like a secondary desktop. I summon it with Ctrl-Esc, navigate to the icon I want with arrow keys and press enter. Or start typing to find something among my applications.
Put this way, I’m starting to wonder why I, for such a long time, had a programs folder on my desktop that I often end up lost in when I could’ve just used the Start menu for it.
It’s different, it’s underrated and I will miss it.
Edit: It’s only different because it’s fullscreen honestly
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Well it has to be done for the greater good of the plateform, but should it really prevent Win7/8.1 users from using studio completly? like they must still be able to use it for longer than the given period , just put them out of consideration when making new updates and let their machines retire by their own over time
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Linux support would be HUGE though. Lubuntu or Arch support would still be good for old hardware but even better for modern PCs because the OS won’t hog resources like Windows 10/11 would, so there’s more performance gain depending how the game is ran 
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its small because it never had a chance to grow.
the amount of hoops that you had to jump through for it to work was way too much for a regular end user.
With the rise of proton and steam os (arch) it can grow big.
- most devs that are on linux don’t need to OS swap to get native performance anymore.
but as always its the anti cheat that is the issue here.
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Honestly, I don’t really care about this update anyway because all my PC’s, that are like decades old, still run and support Windows 10 well without issues. Even a laptop from 2006 I own (ASUS A6R) still can run 10, so this update doesn’t worry me at all. Infact it would surprise me if there was anyone still out there running Roblox on a old 7 or 8.1 device, because of the big stock share Windows 10 and 11 have.
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i’m surprised there’s any pushback to this at all, support is being removed for a 15 year old os and one that nobody uses anymore… use linux with vinegar or “update” to windows 10, they’re both free and i’m surprised this wasn’t done about 3 years ago
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To give some perspective for those that haven’t read the other topics about Win7/Win8 support being dropped before this official announcement came out. The reason there was push-back is more about the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” that Win7/Win8 users feel about this, including myself.
On identical hardware, Win7 out-performs Win10 in Roblox (both client and studio), you can find many topics about it here already with test and data to read about. Granted, this is on older hardware where you see the performance loss. It’s not about upgrading the OS to Win10 but that the upgrade results in less performance, not equal, not more.
To be fair, this isn’t Roblox fault either. The main reason that Roblox is running slower is because Win10 has more stuff (most are unnecessary for Studio) running on startup and running in the background. The biggest slowdown is the built-in Windows anti-virus (and Defender) that can not be disabled from running in the background without a bunch of temporary hacks that reset when you reboot the computer and slow it down once again. 
I’ve already got my development environment transferred over to Windows 10 so it is not so much we all want to hang on to ole’ Win7 just because. It’s more about being accustomed to how fast and stable development is in Win7 and then when trying to migrate to Win10. Everything is slower, occasional crashes out of the blue, and trying to optimize this development environment has a bunch of Microsoft “adware” and constant updates in the way that can’t be disabled or removed without constant baby-sitting of the OS. 
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A 16GB flash drive and Windows 10 are a purchase and a subsequent download away, y’all. Please just upgrade to Windows 10 and stop worrying.
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I mean most computers nowadays even ones with 7 on them are supported by 10’s requirements so I don’t see why people aren’t upgrading.
If it’s because of the design Windows 7 has, there are skins for 10 to make 10 look like 7.
Other then that, no idea.
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haters gonna hate (:
I don’t main windows 7 anymore but bro the disrespect
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Linux? Big Binux? Runs around the walls and ceiling
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Seems like i won’t be able to work on Roblox Studio on school computers anymore 
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Wow, now there is so much time to work on linux support!!! (hint hint hint hint hint hint hint hint hint)
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While I completely understand the idea behind this change, I and most of my development partners use Windows Server 2008 R2 (based on Windows 7) for using Studio.
This is mostly for security features that I could ramble for hours about, but Windows 7 is technically still supported until 2026. Really sad they couldn’t keep going for a little while longer.
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