Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

  • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Regardless of OS, I’d like to see actual user numbers with stats like this because a percentage oversimplifies the landscape.

    Have people moved away from (uninstalled) Windows 11 or have people just bought computers with a different OS/older version of Windows on it. To me, these tell a different tale.

  • Bitflip@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Sounds like what happened when Windows 8 came out. Oops I meant Windows Vista. My bad, I’m thinking of Windows Me. Sorry, I might have it confused with NT 3. Everyone loved Windows 2.0 right?

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      2 months ago

      Every other version of Windows. It’s practically a law of nature at this point.

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        2 months ago

        XP was terrible until sp2 and in fact so insecure that people all over the world got infected by all kinds of shit.

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          2 months ago

          People forgot or are too young to remember, but XP needed several “service packs” before it was good.

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    2 months ago

    I recently moved my media PC to Linux Mint. I had Bluetooth issues with windows despite my hardware not that old and ‘Windows 11 ready’. Zero problems on Linux. I play the same games thanks to Steam Proton library. I use Mac for work. So I finally did it. No more Windows. I tried to switch 5 years ago. But today Linux is polished. And mostly works as expected. You still need to open terminal a few times to change some settings. I’m happy. Highly recommended.

    • Peter_Arbeitslos@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      I switched from Win10 to Arch and now I do have problems with bluetooth, because my mouse officially only supports Windows. Think I will just force my mouse to support Arch (or the other way around). Still way better and faster than Windows.

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    2 months ago

    I’d be happy to upgrade my laptop to Win11 but Win11 doesn’t like it. I’m not buying a new laptop just because of Win11’s dick moves. Win10 works perfectly well on it.

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      TBH part of the problem is that Microsoft’s revenue is only 12% from Windows, and I imagine its profit is lower because it involves a lot of maintaining like antivirus and hardware compatibility than some of their other products.

      Basically, they can afford to fuck around with Windows OS and still expect to beat quarterly projections (which they did, again.)