How do they deal with not having file browser tabs?!
The same way as they have dealt with not having them since Windows 3.x.
Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
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Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#12I've been using Windows 11 without much complaint since its release, but off the top of my head, I can't name a single "feature" that would motivate me to upgrade if I were on Windows 10, besides "continued support."
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#13How do they deal with not having file browser tabs?!
I use Clover
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#14Steam users are more likely to be on win 10 than others because they often spend more money on gaming rigs than people buying web browser machine. With the hardware requirements of win 11 (tpm, others) many gamers will not want to throw out their working machines to satisfy Microsoft's hardware demand.
Well 2 years ago when I built a new desktop i took great care to order hardware that works on windows 11. Then I read the stories saying 11 has even more telemetry that you can't disable, ads on the start menu, Edge that you can't get rid of... and when I got around to setting up Windows on it I ordered a Win 10 license. They're still available even now, I think. Win 10 does try to trick me into upgrading to 11 rando…
I'm running Win11 but I had to check, because I forgot. I remember having to turn off a bunch of bullshit when I first installed Win on this machine but there aren't ads or anything. The most annoying thing it does is power cycle when I'm not expecting it, in order to update. Pretty sure there's a setting for that I haven't touched.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#15It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it. Windows 11 came out October 5, 2021. Edge came out in 2015 and they kept supporting IE11 until June 15, 2022. Given that the major Windows 11 features were things like introducing a screen grabber to make your passwords and private data vulnerable to theft, it's no wonder people have resisted adopting it.
>It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it.
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 - all of these had a published 10 year support lifecycle when they came out.
Windows 10's end of support is completely expected and as planned.
With Windows 11, they've moved it to a new lifecycle model, so it's less clear how long it will be supported for.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#16Windows 10 is the IPV4 of operating systems.
I thought that was Windows XP?
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#1711 is pretty underwhelming. There’s some goodies for IT people… otherwise it’s Vista 2
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#18Steam users are more likely to be on win 10 than others because they often spend more money on gaming rigs than people buying web browser machine. With the hardware requirements of win 11 (tpm, others) many gamers will not want to throw out their working machines to satisfy Microsoft's hardware demand.
Steam users are more likely to be on win 11 than others because they often spend more money on gaming rigs than people buying web browser machine. Many of them will want to throw out their working machines to satisfy Microsoft's demand and upgrade to latest hardware to get 300fps
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#19I've been using Windows 11 without much complaint since its release, but off the top of my head, I can't name a single "feature" that would motivate me to upgrade if I were on Windows 10, besides "continued support."
It doesn’t nag you incessantly to upgrade to Windows 11
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#20Windows 10 is the IPV4 of operating systems.
Windows is the IPv4 of operating systems.
Every time a new Windows version comes out, since Windows XP, that there are forums filled with now the max exodus to Linux Desktop promised land is finally going to happen.
Meanwhile not even Valve was able to convince game studios to port their Android NDK games to SteamDeck, they have to translate Windows/DirectX, and lets see for how long Microsoft will keep tolerating that.
I have the Linux kernel all over the place at home, yet not one of them is a GNU/Linux distribution.