News Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market

[Admin]

Windows 11 market share reached an all-time high of 35.58% as per Statcounter's latest report from October 2024

Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market : Read more

 

[sadsteve]

Well, the Windows 11 incompatible computers I have will become Linux boxes once EoS occurs. There's nothing that they do that requires Windows. My main machine runs Linux already and the only reason I have a Windows 11 VM is to play games that won't work under Linux yet, TurboTax and Affinity Photo (I really dislike Gimp!).

 

[DS426]

Well, the Windows 11 incompatible computers I have will become Linux boxes once EoS occurs. There's nothing that they do that requires Windows. My main machine runs Linux already and the only reason I have a Windows 11 VM is to play games that won't work under Linux yet, TurboTax and Affinity Photo (I really dislike Gimp!).

TurboTax still offers a non-web version??

 

[sjkpublic]

Windows 24H2 is still green. The storage cleanup feature is broken. And the new virtualization based security presents new challenages. It would be nice to create an OS that does not include so many kluges to satisfy 3rd parties.

 

[niftybottle]

I mean, the reason I don’t want to “upgrade” my computers is Windows 11 is functionally adware. It’s been a trend, but 11 really kicks it into high drive. Once upon a time, “decrapifying” was a process you used on bloat manufacturers put in, not coming from Windows itself.

 

[Stomx]

Looking back I find absolutely no single compelling reason to upgrade from either Windows year around 2000 or Linux of approximately same years. Just the screensavers were changing all these years and the performance +/- 0.1%. Any noticeably performance gains i have really seen only from upgrading of my hardware.

I have no idea why Windows still exists and why it is not free like many other OSes. As to enterprise - how many Windows supercomputers are left today in the Top500 list? One? Still somehow ones per decade Windows succeeds to pocket $10-100 "tax" from probably every second living human creature on the Earth.

Respect to Linux -- the life clearly showed all its distros on the Android example what it really means to write good friendly super-stable OS which stands billion users with 1000 apps in each device and do not disintegrate for years and decades.

On our next OS we should login in just few seconds and even do not know if this this is Windows or Linux or Android or iOS. All apps just work. This is approximately how WINE on Linux works right now emulating Windows (including playing Windows games there)

 

[sjkpublic]

I mean, the reason I don’t want to “upgrade” my computers is Windows 11 is functionally adware. It’s been a trend, but 11 really kicks it into high drive. Once upon a time, “decrapifying” was a process you used on bloat manufacturers put in, not coming from Windows itself.

Sad how MS takes advantange of personal information. The EU used to have laws in this regard. Do they still enforce them? Can you use the EU version to have some modicum of privacy?

 

[Coopernet]

Why upgrade to a more complex, buggy O/S for a huge cost when all the functions I require are available in Windows 10? MS is pushing to lease the O/S for regular income, and adding thousands of functions I, as a home user, will never require.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

ArcaOS (Somewhat modernized version of OS/2) is looking good as a Windows replacement as well. I was a big time OS/2 proponent back in the days before Windows 9x rolled over everything.