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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (47 children)

DO NOT PAY FOR WINDOWS 10 UPDATES.

They're pushing this plan to make people pay to continue to get support for 10 very hard.

Don't fucking do it. Make them eat this loss of a shitty invasive OS that nobody asked for. This trend is evidence that we're in control in this situation, not Microsoft.

Force their hand and make it so they have no choice but to keep supporting Windows 10 for free for five more years.

Look, I'm a Linux user primarily, but that doesn't mean you should just let these corporate fuckholes walk all over you. Windows 10 is ride or die. Make Microsoft pay for trying to fuck you out of a cleaner operating system that is less infested with spyware and actually works half the time.

Not everybody has the time or energy to figure out Linux, but either way, the best way to fight Microsoft is by hitting them square in the pocketbook.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 weeks ago (37 children)

Linux is mostly pretty easy to install/use at this point as long as you stick with a main distro like Mint

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. The main concern is if there's specific software you cannot do without, such as:

Adobe products
big multiplayer games w/ anti-cheat
Xbox app/game pass

But if you're a bit flexible and are willing to try different software, then yeah, Linux is pretty rad. Most Steam games I've tried work, you can play Epic and GOG games through Heroic, LibreOffice is fantastic, VLC works the same, and you can get almost any web browser you want (Firefox, Chrome, etc). And if your hardware isn't too old, it'll probably work well w/ Wayland, which resolves a number of problems people have had in the past.

If you have any questions about app compatibility, ask away! I probably haven't used whatever it is, but surely someone else has.

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