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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)

that's why i switched to a mac instead of linux. i love linux on my servers, but for day to day productivity? nothing beats the "turn it on and go" of a mac. of course you pay for it with money (for a mac) or time (for linux)

but at least i don’t get full screen ads for windows 11!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I tried the apple ecosystem way back when.

Fuck me I hated iTunes!

So glad to be out of that walled garden

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I generally like my work mac, but external monitor support (used as an example against Linux here) is awful.

Sure, if you connect one (1) monitor and still use the laptop screen, it’s fine. But try to connect multiple, or disable the laptop screen, or try to lock the dock to your main monitor and you have to jump through all sorts of hoops or it just doesn’t work.

In the end, macos is just another OS, a good one in general, but definitely not without it’s quirks and issues. I run Arch (btw) with KDE/Plasma on my own desktop and am very happy with it

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

I like my work Mac but I'd never buy one myself. They're extremely overpriced.

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

Can I put an Nvidia 4090 in a mac for AI and gaming purposes?

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

do you really not know the answer to that?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I have an IQ below 42, pardon my mental disability sir.

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

We have a job opening for you in the coming administration, are you going to be available for a job starting in january ?

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

you must have a sad life to throw politics in so randomly. stop watching Fox News and get some sunshine

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

I was almost gonna be a smartass and say you can, but then I realized that there are no nVidia drivers. You CAN use an AMD external GPU on newer Intel Macs, but even the newest Intel Mac is pretty old now. They still get software support, but the performance isn't comparable to Apple Silicon anymore, so you'd have to sacrifice a lot of CPU power and efficiency to be able to use an eGPU that doesn't even have CUDA.