I'm not a fan of Win 7/8 being called "ancient"

What value is there to using windows 7 nowadays. I genuinely don't understand

Ancient! What does that make me!?

Ancient... ME is ancient, XP is old, 7 is almost old (you still see it here and there).

I'm not ancient, you are ancient!

There wasn't even a DOS 5 version of Steam ☹️

It’s time to install Nobara on those machines.

Friendly Reminder: You can install any KDE based Linux distribution and probably have an equivalent or better experience with security and regular steam updates.

Compatibility isn't really an excuse in this case, as Windows 7/8 will no longer be compatible with the most troubling games anyway. You'd be best off on a modern system with proper security patches.