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.
My PC isn’t compatible, so fuck Windows 11
Honestly, I don’t get the hate of Windows 11. Sure, compatibility is a shitshow but if you can install it, it’s better than W10. I updated a couple months back and was pleasantly surprised. Things I like:
- Improved tiling
- The new terminal app is actually usable.
- More consistent theming
- Settings menu is no longer useless
- Last two points combined result in me not getting flashbanged nearly as often as I did in W10
- Improved volume mixer. I even ditched EarTrumpet.
- Most people won’t care about this one, but the little pop-ups that appear when you hover an icon in the system tray don’t get stuck in your screen as much as they did in W10.
Things that got worse:
- The start menu. Seriously. Stop with the redesigns.
- Taskbar is no longer movable. I liked it on the left.
- They hid the right click menu under an additional “More options” menu for some reason
Disclaimer: I only use my Windows computer for playing games. I do all of my regular day to day computing on my laptop with Fedora (KDE spin because
I’m not a godless heathenI like it better). I’m also running the Education version, which is basically Enterprise so I have feature updates straight up turned off and only get security updates. It also doesn’t have any ads but my ROG Ally has W11 Home and it doesn’t have any ads either, so I don’t even know what’s real anymore.It’s already a custom or tradition to hate Windows regardless of the version.
I agree that Windows 11 has good and bad things.
In addition, the news is a bit sensationalist in my opinion because it talks about only a small crash that it had in November.
Yep. Honestly, Lemmy feels like a circlejerk sometimes.
There’s a registry hack for the right click menu. I run it on every new computer that I set up at work, either at setup or when someone calls to complain about it.
Oh, yeah, already did it. I was more so speaking to the experience a regular user would get out of the box.
There’s a registry hack
By the time i was editing registry and doing all sorts of other power user shit… i realize i should just switch to linux lol
Yup! I made the switch a couple years ago personally, but it turns out that corporate device management for Linux is a huge PITA for mediocre functionality.
Windows: you’ll eat this slop even if we have to carve a hole in your throat and force it through.
I really don’t want to have to install it for work at all next year.
Windows users will do everything, including using a soon unsupported and insecure, outdated version of this proprietary garbage, instead of just switching to a better OS
How do they judge? How do I look at market?
They link their source in the article, and the source has a FAQ which has their methodology explained in the first question. You are capable of looking at market, you just need to, y’know…look.
In short, they are among the 867 partners on your favorite website who want to install cookies on your browser for analytics. OS info is included in what it reports back home.
Seriously, stop using Windows. If you set up a new computer, use Linux. Compared to everything we had in the 1990’s when we all decided to buy a computer and connect to the internet, modern Linux is fucking awesome, so think of it like prestiging in Call of Duty. You go back to the 90’s and start over, but it’s not nearly as bad, and it’s for a good cause.
Family need a new computer? Linux, Mac OS. Work need services deployed? Linux, FreeBSD.
Stop using Windows. Please. I stopped in 2013 and I’ve never been happier, it’s not been easy but I’m better now because of it and when I have to see Windows I fucking cringe and wonder how people can do it.
Break your addiction to the GUI, it’s not better than CLI, it augments it. Break your addiction to download and double click .exe to install applications. Break your addition video games that require Windows, you can run anything in Steam now (sans VR 😿). Break your addiction to your OS stopping you to apply “updates” and breaking your shit and blue screen frown face and moving your
startwindows logo button from the far left where it’s been for decades to the middle and showing you ads and introducing spy features and forcing their browser on you and their search engine and promising you good changes and good software just to deploy a half-baked product and begging you to “just wait it’ll get better”, to have it die in your arms and have ms just walk up rip it out of your arms and replace it with more half-baked software and promises, over and over. Break your addiction to MS telling you this is the last OS that you will ever buy every fucking release, having features taken from you and placed behind a pay wall, having simple applications like notepad which might have been fine in 1993 but then just remain the same for literally 20 fucking years, just to be overhauled to have tabs, something that notepad++ (which is free) has had since the beginning. Break your addiction to the abuse, this company is buying nuclear power plants to run datacenters to process data about you, that they basically are forcing you to be okay with, so that they can further increase their profit margins, and or enable governments to survey the public for whatever reason they deem necessary.Hmmm… Maybe people using windows 10 really do love the full screen ads! Yeah! They missed the ads so they went back to windows 10 until they can get those ads in windows 11! Yup! That must be it!
I would double down on full screen unstoppable ads. Maybe one that looks like a BSOD? That would be lovely!
If Microsoft really wants people to switch to Windows 11 they need to retain many of the already few remaining customization options from Windows 10. Trackpad gesture support is worse, the only useful button in the new right click menu is the show more one which brings back the old menu but requires an extra click, and the file explore somehow got even more buggy. I hate every time I need to interact with a computer using Windows 11.
Luckily there’s been an initiative within my company recently to support Linux, so I’m hoping that all the network related issues are fully worked out before Windows 11 is forced on us so I can just jump ship to Ubuntu.
Windows 10 no longer being updated by Microsoft is it’s biggest selling point
I sense 12 coming soon if MS wants to EOL 10 without losing customers.
The moment I can verify a solution for my music production workflow on Linux, I know that I’m out as well.
Windows is only relevant because of a few key applications, like MS Office (no, libre office doesn’t come close).
I’m now recommending family members and relatives to switch to Macs if they’re not willing to install Linux on their PC.
I’m trying really hard to educate them about how intrusive Windows 11 is. But in the end, it’s like Facebook or whatever. They just don’t care about their online privacy and how their personal information is handled. Sometimes I don’t even know why I try.
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I thought it was a scam to force people to buy new computers with TPM chips and whatever bullshit CPU requirements win11 has?
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