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
#2Steam 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.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#3It'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.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#4Windows 10 is the IPV4 of operating systems.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#5Steam 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 randomly on boot (full screen ad with a very hidden "fuck off and skip this" button) but so far I've managed to avoid it.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#6It'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.
What's your point? Windows 7 had 11 years of support. Windows 10 had 10. Nothing strange about it.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#7Wasn't the steam survey heavily skewed towards the multitude of PCs in the internet shops in China?
I doubt those are regularly updated.
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#8Steam 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.
It's the other way around: PC gamers have more computer knowledge than the average user and actually upgrade their hardware. Windows 11 has been out for 3.5 years now.
Among all internet users, 60% are still on Windows 10. Both worldwide [1] and in NA [2]. And that figure includes all the corporate machines that get replaced on deprecation schedules. Among private computers the share of Windows 10 might be even higher
1: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d...
2: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#9How do they deal with not having file browser tabs?!
Re: Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
#10Steam 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.
I doubt I'll be able to use windows 11, even just for gaming. I think when I won't be able to game on 10 I'll just install Linux, or steamos?, and I'll just play whatever I can. And I just won't play any games that require windows for their DRM reasons.