Can we also cut support for all the 8-year-old phones that can’t run most modern roblox games? Pretty please? So we can make games designed for people who can actually play them?
And yet they are all down for cutting ties with Windows 7…
Look, I’m fine with using Windows 11, but only when I have a gaming computer designed to tank and still perform well. I don’t have that right now, quite the opposite actually. Linux is popular because it doesn’t keep getting major upgrades that cause conflicts with older code.
If Roblox was smart, they’d be supporting Linux for the sake of those who cannot simply upgrade to beefier operating systems, as it would also let them keep most of the revenue they’d otherwise lose AND would only add one new OS to support rather than another line of OS versions.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t support Linux. There’s no excuse. It would actually make it EASIER to develop, since now they can get rid of older OS versions faster and leave it to Linux to help those with lower-end hardware continue playing and creating on Roblox. The growing use of Linux makes the revenue saved stack up and increase overtime, and for a money-driven company to not recognize that is quite depressing.
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Linux is still used by less than 5% of regular PC users worldwide. It would be a massive loss to roblox to try and market to a platform that MAYBE 4.5% of their userbase actually runs.
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it’s so crazy coming from a 2013 user that grew up on windows 7 on roblox.
So sad to see it go but windows 10/11 is the most commonly used OS nowadays.
It’s sad to see it go but it’s time.
It feels like I was in 2017 studio a year ago…
roblox runs on chromeos and it has less usage than linux
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chromeos can run android apps. ROBLOX has an android app. Making roblox linux compatible would likely entail building an entirely new client, and there’s no way ROBLOX spends all the time, money, and resources doing that so that the maybe 4.5% of people who use linux can now play ROBLOX.
I’m not on the teams making these changes, but I was previously the manager for the team that discontinued support for Vista and XP. All of the same explanations apply - those OSes are really old and supporting them takes time that doesn’t benefit the vast majority of our Windows users. As long as we support an old OS, we can’t use any features that are on newer versions unless we can add some kind of workaround.
As an example, we’re soon going to make a change that requires the various C runtime DLLs to be installed. Because Windows 7 is still supported, we have to add stuff to the installer that ensures they’re present (newer OSes guarantee it). TBH, 99% or more of Windows 7 users, who all together are a tiny fraction of our Windows users, will have those DLLs present. But we’re not going to ship something that we know doesn’t work in a particular situation. So we code for it and test it, and that takes time, and I promise that you would much rather those people are spending that time working on other things.
I loved Windows 7 back in the day (now I’m a Mac user) and I can understand why you don’t want it pried out of your hands. But I’m pretty sure I saw at least four or five times this past year where engineers grumbled about the extra time and annoyance of supporting it. Product managers pushed back, for all the reasons you’ve mentioned above, until we finally reached the breaking point.
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Thanks for taking the time to post some insider information. Many here might not have much experience with what was often called “DLL hell” from the old days. 
When the change finally does happen, I’m sure the community can pull together to help each other out, just like when the other older versions of windows was dropped from future updates. 
Gotta keep moving forward…
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people won’t move to linux because companies don’t care about linux, and companies don’t care about linux because people don’t use it.
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Would there be considerable trouble making and supporting a Linux build for the Player and Studio applications? If a Linux build for these applications could be released, then those on Windows 7 could just go to Linux.
If really nothing can be done, at the very least make it so you are able to host LAN Roblox servers to play with other people in your network, then record each LAN Roblox Player and Studio build which mark the end of support for one or more operating systems.
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Oh… I wanna play on linux. Lol
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I predict that windows 10 is gonna be cut in some years too it’s 10 years old and even Microsoft is cutting support for it and for the people who still want windows 7 and 8.1 those are 16 year old os you really want to use them that badly.
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then ill quit roblox cuz windows 11 requirments is a joke (why tpm needs to be required)
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Fr but it’s true and it’s happening so get prepared
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to anyone affected by this, i recommend dual booting so you can run two operating systems. hope this helps. win7 4ever
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You do understand that they are potentially putting their info that they have in that system at risk by doing this if they get hacked or a bug appears and they lose or their data gets leaked they won’t be able to do anything because there are no security updates no support for newer apps and no customer support.So they can keep it but don’t put your data in the windows 7 system because that would suck
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As someone that has used the oldest possible operating system for roblox for YEARS I think it would be kinda strange to just pull the strings of a considerable amount of people’s support.
Is there any other way it can be safer for these users?
What about Windows 10?
I use Linux for a multitude of things, I’m STILL waiting for support
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Me and 9 other windows 8.1 users crying 
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When that happens ill just upgrade to windows 11 without tpm or install ltsc version somehow