I basically only have a windows PC to test compatibility of apps I make, and occasionally play games. MS told me I can’t upgrade so that’s the end of it for me. I don’t really care enough for any of the new features to go buy a new PC
Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
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Re: Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
#22Windows adoption is largely driven by corporations. Most corporates align on a common policy of migration to every second major Windows release following this pattern: Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 With Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows 11 skipped. Which is a shame as these same corporates who have fleets of Apple Mac computers normally migrate annually about 6-9 months after each major annua…
You forgot Windows 8. Don't worry, so did everyone else - probably for the best.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. I’ve been reading comments like this since the Year of Linux first began. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3038d4/when_was_the_... Image my shock to find out Windows still has 87% market share. I’m still unhappy that they took my Sun workstation and gave me a Windows PC.
Brenda in accounting isn't going to run Ubuntu even with the cute animal names. Until that happens,there will be stacks upon stacks of windows optiplexes being sold every day. Also nobody misses sloaris. I'm going to chalk that remark up to a misfired punchline.
I doubt Brenda would care much if she was running something like RHEL for work since it can run a browser as good as anything. I assume the main thing keeping Windows around in her case is all the IT endpoint management stuff built around the MS ecosystem. Personally, I'd probably be all in on Ubuntu or some derivative if not for gaming.
Re: Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
#24Windows 11 being how it is is what finally pushed me to switch to Linux.
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#25My gaming PC, which isn't that old (Skylake / GTX 1080) isn't compatible with Windows 11. It still works fine, but given that it will inevitably be out of date with something that requires Windows 11, and the current impossibility of buying reasonably priced GPUs, I bought an XBox instead.
Microsoft gets my money anyway, I suppose, but all my real work is done on a Mac.
It's funny how Microsoft is basically just a gaming company for me, now.
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#26last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
I just set up a clean install with only a local account. It isn’t the first option presented, but it was available
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#27I'm running Windows 11. Its just like Windows 10 but with many annoying UI changes.
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#28I haven't been following Windows development really, but wasn't 10 supposed to be "last version of Windows"? Anyone knows what happened to that, or if that statement has always been just overblown by tech media?
The answer comes to us through humour as it turns out the jester is usually the one telling the truth.
https://www.theregister.com/2011/11/11/bofh_2011_episode_18/
Re: Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
#29last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
Before installing windows disconnect from the Internet. Otherwise it forces you to use a Microsoft Account.
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Brenda in accounting isn't going to run Ubuntu even with the cute animal names. Until that happens,there will be stacks upon stacks of windows optiplexes being sold every day. Also nobody misses sloaris. I'm going to chalk that remark up to a misfired punchline.
I doubt Brenda would care much if she was running something like RHEL for work since it can run a browser as good as anything. I assume the main thing keeping Windows around in her case is all the IT endpoint management stuff built around the MS ecosystem. Personally, I'd probably be all in on Ubuntu or some derivative if not for gaming.
In my experience people balk when they realize they’re not using Windows or Office. I’ve literally had someone sit in front of a Linux computer with OpenOffice and work fine on it until they realized “hey the title bar says OpenOffice Calc - it’s not excel! I don’t know how to use this!” Despite the fact they were using it just fine. At this point no amount of convincing made them give it another try - they’d just cross arms until they were put back in front of their known, trusty Windows computer.
So I agree they don’t care but there’s also the “I’m not trained for this” fallacy.