Doing that will help you gain new customers, help people realize how it works with rental services like Steam and it will be a jab at Steam itself as well. You will definitely get publicity. I know that Galaxy officially does not support Windows 7, sadly (it still works though, luckily), but everybody can still download and play the games purchased here.
it gives you a great advantage. I only wish you had some of the games which are only available on Steam...

Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7 more than 3 years ago. It was released in 2009. Even if you don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, for security purposes if nothing else, it's time to move on to something newer.

Honestly support for Linux would make more sense than supporting a 13½ year old operating system.

Is it really worth it? According to Steam's own survey, only 1.5% of their users are running Windows 7, and that number is falling every year.

Once that Steam won't run on Windows 7 anymore, the number will be 0.

Point is that the games would still run on Windows 7, many of them were written for Windows 7. But they won't start since the launcher does not run on Windows 7 (edit: well, old versions will run, but they won't work if the network gets changed).

As long as our offline installers run on Windows 7, we don't face that problem.

(I'm using Windows 11 btw)

I appreciate your use of the term "rental service" to describe Scheme and other DRMed platforms, as that is indeed what they are, effectively. You point out that Galaxy does not support Windows 7 officially. Did you know that (according to what I read from other users, can't verify myself) GOG previously broke Windows XP compatibility on Fallout New Vegas, all in service of their precious Galaxy client? So unfortunately while I think you make good points and I agree, I am doubtful GOG would do anything but keep Windows 10/11 working and of course keep pushing Galaxy with all resources possible.

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Guys, I appreciate of all of the answers!
For one, I'd like to stress that one can still use their own computer for gaming and nothing else. No change of hardware or software is necessary. The security thing should be OS-related. Other companiones have nothing to do with it. Or it should be that way, although we know how all of those shady services and their relationships are.

Two, as clear as it is that GOG is pushing Galaxy (which is weird, given how its lacks some of the basic functions, such as sorting titles according to the purchase date), but it is in their *interest* to show their advantage over Steam. It's been very hard and they haven't had a lot of success. Steam dropping Windows 7 is *THAT* selling point that may draw attention especially now and closer to the end of this year, when Steam's support drops. It'd be foolish for GOG not take advantage of that with all of the outrage caused by the decision.

About te Win7 usage. Man, if you ask 10 people owning cars if they have a car, you cannot claim that ALL people own cars. Steam polls are such select market piece. I do not care about those for several reasons, and I got a prompt to take it earlier this year. There are even people still using Windows XP in India and other countries like that.

While we are it, I have had problems with XP era or earlier games not running on more modern systems and I could play them on my old computer with old software if it weren't for forced upgrades and lack of software/driver support. But that market, back then, was still much smaller back then and my library is MUCH larger these days.

I do not want to use Windows 10 or 11. I've tried them and I really dislike a lot of things about them, especially of you try to monitor whatever happens on your computer. I do not want to be forced to change my gaming computer (my work computer uses Linux) and GOG should use "moral ourage" of people like me to boost its market share.

TLDR; It's not only in its potential customers' interest, but also GOG's to challenge Steam on this one. Galaxy support for Windows 7 would definitely help, but I realize it is unlikely.

GOG taking advantage and dropping offline installers and ensuring Goglaxy does not start in anything older than Windows 10?

You do not seem to understand how modern software development works. Nobody nowadays reinvents the wheel for standard solutions from scratch. Apart from additional functionality like downloading and installing software from different stores, at it's very core the Galaxy client is nothing but a customized web browser. And do you really think anyone would program a new web browser when CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) is readily available?

But the problem here is: Once you include thrid party software into your own software you are dependent on what they support. Or in other words: If CEF decides to drop Win7 support then Galaxy will have to do so as well.

Because GOG can't just take an old CEF version with bugs that are known security problems since they will be held responsible if people using Galaxy will get hacked left and right. So they will be forced to upgrade CEF regularly. And they also can't afford to rewrite CEF to make it Win7 compatible. They don't have the resources for that.

So there is nothing GOG can do about it. Once CEF drops Win7 support there is no way Galaxy can support it.

BTW, can you guess what else is using CEF? Correct. The Steam Client as well as the Epic Client.

Read and then reply, k? That is why I wrote it is unlikely. Luckily you do not need Galaxy to download installers or buy games on GOG's website.
Chromium overuse is a problem, however. E.g. Opera was much better before its devs decided to switch to it.

The problem with Windows 7 security is pretty much fictional since Windows 10 has almost the same level of security vulnerability. Also Windows 7 has very low value for hackers because it's mostly used by those who can't afford a better software and/or hardware. The same applies to GOG accounts in comparison to Steam accounts: they don't have items that you can convert to wallet funds, which is much beneficial than an account with some games.

As far as GOG tweeting out some digs at Steam and being like "If you buy from us, for single-player you won't need a client that could be shut down on certain OSes" (@some people: I know there's a thread talking about DRM in some single-player games; let's not get into that here though), sure, maybe some form of that would be worthwhile. And maybe a sale highlighting this somehow? *shrug* I don't think spending many resources on this would be a good idea though, most Win7 Steam users would probably rather just update than bother with a new store.

True
Of course you can keep using a dead operating system. Hell, they make even new games for the C64 sometimes on itch.io
Maybe you will be able to get some of the new games or even Galaxy to run on Windows 7.
But you can't expect support for it. Luckily, for just playing GOG games you don't need it.

I look forward to GOG's *?CENSORED?* style video on this topic becoming hilariously hypocritical a few years down the line.

Edit: Omg did they really censor the name of their own video? Just wouldn't post at all till I removed the name. Won't even edit it in. Posting/editing works fine as long as I don't mention it. This is hilarious