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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] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Me: Hmmmmmm, maybe it's time for a new PC. Lets see what's out there.

Stores: Windows 10 and 11

Me: Nevermind!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

May I interest you in our lord and saviour linux?

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

You mean, THIS LINUX???

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

Take a look at the comments, they explain the issues very well

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I use and love Linux, but it's unusable on random unsupported hardware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

For the person who posted it, it could also be that the hardware IS supported, but it's so obscure that no mainstream distro includes it in their kernel build, not even as a module.

Of course, for the average person, not having the kernel module built pretty much means it's unsupported.

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

That's why I wish they'd release a concept like the Raspberry Pi, but for fully realized mini-pc's. The thing I love about it is I could have 10 SD cards all sitting in a box. And I slide one in, now my raspberry pi is a retro gaming emulation machine.

Then I turn it off. Slide a different SD card in. Now it's a pihole.

Slide a different card in, now it's home automation.

Any new distro you want to try, slide out the sd card, slide in a new one. Your old distro is saved exactly how it was. Just slide it back in, and it's exactly like you left it.

No commitment.

And the hardware is centralized. So if the distro is built for the raspberry pi, you KNOW it'll work. The downside is, it's a rinky dink little arm machine.

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

Maybe get a Steam Deck? Only kind of joking... Switch to Desktop Mode, and it's literally a fully functioning Linux PC with an immutable distro

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

Aren't those things like $700?

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

256GB LCD model is currently $399 (you might be able to get refurbished for cheaper). They have an SD card slot.

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

Except with real PCs users expect some performance, so these would have to be swappable NVMes. Which is of course prohibitively expensive.

But for a Raspberry, yeah, the ability to turn my Kodi box into a game console is awesome