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Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market (www.tomshardware.com)

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

I figured when work replaced my machine with a new laptop with Windows 11, I'd give in and upgrade my Windows boxes, but I hate it so much. The UI is a confused mess and it's so buggy and slow, even on a brand new machine with 32GB of RAM. Just getting around file Explorer feels like the entire machine is coated in molasses. It's like using a 300 baud modem and I am typing faster than the characters can go. I feel like I am always waiting for files to load, I forget why I even opened an app.

My main machine has been on Linux for a couple years already and Waydroid let's me run proprietary apps. I'll probably give up on PC gaming and get a new PS5.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I will probably continue using 10 until it will no longer do what I need. I will then switch to one or more versions of linux.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've already installed Arch on a spare laptop to assess the difficulty of switching over. So far I'm very impressed!

arch-install made the setup pretty easy, and KDE Plasma feels very natural for someone migrating from Windows. Flatpaks make installing/updating apps a breeze, and there's way more apps available than I expected, including commercial ones like Spotify.

Most of the "muscle memory" habits translate across too, for example pressing Meta and typing "notepad" shows KWrite in the start menu. That was a nice surprise.

I can already tell it's going to be viable for 90% of my needs, and the fact that there's good free software to do everything from video editing to office tasks is really amazing. Linux desktop has come a LONG way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Same, but with Mint.

Haven't encounted more than a few problems up until now and most I could fix by myself after a quick search and some very light reading.

I've been very satisfied with the OS switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd be curious to see the win 11 share without mandated corporate upgrades. As in, if you leave users a choice, do they want or even care about win 11?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Windows 11 is objectively the better system, it just has too much garbage as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.

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

If given the choice I think a lot of people would have been happy sticking with even older versions.