[nyuszika7h]

yt-dlp currently has no plans to drop support for Python 3.6, which became EOL a month ago. And Python 3.8 will be supported until October 2024.

On Linux (at least a regular x86/x86_64 machine, not sure about other architectures), you can generally easily install an up to date Python version with pyenv.

[mananaysiempre]

My personal machine is on Arch Linux (which recently moved to 3.10 without any major problems) and I know about yt-dlp, so I’m not having any particular problems here :) It’s just that the great-grandparent asked for plausible scenarios for using obsolete Python, and Windows 7 support immediately came to mind.