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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by magicalhippo »

quchen wrote: post #7

I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…

At work we write a CRUD-ish B2B application, and it started its life on Windows so is a Win32 application.

We're working on transitioning to the web so perhaps in a decade we'll be entirely off Windows, but for now we and our users run Windows. Directly, or indirectly via published applications.

At home it's primarily RDP. Haven't found any viable alternative for Linux, so my main desktop stays Windows for now.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by some-guy »

I have W11 due to building a gaming PC with a modern CPU with "efficiency cores", which W10 doesn't support proper task scheduling of. From a stability and performance standpoint the OS has been fine, but every update there's a whole new enshittified UI / UX feature that I have to figure out how to turn off.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by _aavaa_ »

Xeamek wrote: post #21
FredPret wrote: post #4

I paid money Windows 10 when Microsoft said "this is the last version of Windows - only updates from here on". When they announced work on Windows 11, I switched platforms. It didn't help that the Windows 10 updates were incredibly obnoxious, restarting my computer regardless of overnight compute tasks I had running.

I mean, you can upgrade from w10 to w11 for free, without reinstalling full system. It's not really much different then 'w10 updates forever', just marketing with new version.

Unless you happen to have a CPU which isn't supported, like those still being made at the time when w11 was released. High end cpus too.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by cush »

quchen wrote: post #7

I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…

> What keeps Windows afloat?

Gaming, enterprise, education, healthcare, manufacturing, etc etc. PCs are everywhere. You can run 40 year old software and they’re upgradable.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by legitster »

I finally got the upgrade to Windows 11 and it's... fine?

I don't get all of the hate. Maybe it's because I'm late and everything has been fixed, but it's actually been my favorite version of Windows so far. It finally axed some of the vestigial UIs from Windows 8. And built-in driver support for things like controllers and bluetooth accessories have been a huge upgrade.

I'm ready to be showered in a hail of messages about ads or bloatware or changed layouts, but I found all of the defaults and settings relatively easy to change - if anything easier to find than even Windows 10.

This is a relatively tiny blip, and nearly every other hardware survey tool seems to indicate W11 adoption is chugging along briskly.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by grishka »

pch00 wrote: post #33

Imho the TPM 2.0 requirement killed Windows 11. There's still huge fleets of incompatible, yet still perfectly useful, PCs out there - especially in large corp environments.

It's not a technical requirement but rather a purely marketing one. It's trivially bypassable.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by andix »

quchen wrote: post #7

I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…

Companies, free OEM licenses, and habit.

It's not a bad OS, I'm thinking more and more about moving to Linux, but Windows 11 is fine for me and has the broadest compatibility. There is nothing that doesn't work with Windows, since WSL2 it runs nearly all Linux software, and there is nothing that bothers me too much.

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by ies7 »

quchen wrote: post #7

I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…

> I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat?

MS Excel

Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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Post by Xeamek »

quchen wrote: post #7

I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…

Wsl is imo more convenient then dual boot.

And since most people are used to windowsUI, going out of their way to switch to Linux while still keeping windows installed just doesn't make much sense. Also, with wsl I can switch back and forth seamlessly, while dual boot is inherently clumsy when trying to cross the barrier.

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