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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] -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No, 8 GB is nothing these days. It's not an enjoyable experience on Win 10, 12, Linux, or MacOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 8 gigs in my Thinkpad seem fine with Mint

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 8 GB in my ThinkPad is pretty annoying. It's usable but not enjoyable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

what do you use it for to be filling 8gb on linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Opening a few apps fills it up very quickly.

I even run Spotifyd and a cli UI for Spotify because I need to be conservative with my RAM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

curious. im running all regular gui software and i usually only go over 8gb when im pushing it harder. the only time i do consistently is while gaming and even then im always below 16gb.

what distro are you running? do you have KSM enabled?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would guess a heavy UI, and a couple heavy apps that they don't close.

I admittedly use xfce, which is much lighter than most, I wouldn't want to run Gnome or KDE on this machine.

Or I suppose I think I wouldn't; I've been using lightweight desktop environments for a decade or so. I just assume the like Ubuntu or whatever default is going to be slower and RAM-heavy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

My 8GB 13-year old Linux laptop and I would like to disagree

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

its great on linux (regular distro, not particularly lightweight) and reasonable on windows 10 for me.

unless you are pushing too many tabs and/or many heavy programs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

8 GB works just fine on my laptop running EndeavourOS. And I know there are much more lightweight distros than that. Not ideal, but fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess, if you are able to minimize the amount of open programs and browser tabs, it can run fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah, I had been using that laptop for a few years so I knew its limits very well.