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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] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do you need an app store?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ease of installing I would say. Most people do not need nor want to learn how to install stuff using terminal. An app store is necessary for your regular Joe using the Operating system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are decent GUI installers for most, if not all, major Linux distros. They may not be as full-featured as the CLI versions, but they are sufficient for average users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You don't always need the terminal. If the software is available in a deb package, you just double click it and hit Install. But, you're right, most people don't want to learn apt or any other command, and I get that.

Edit: Autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't want an app store. But I don't want to jump through too many hoops when installing Software. I like the "Installer" concept.