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Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this sounds like Louis Rossmann's "rapist mentality" that he's been harping on for a while. They think they own your hardware just because they make software, so they'll force you to do whatever they think is "best" for you (which is probably using more of their products).

Just say no.

Software should give you an incentive to upgrade. I use Linux 100%, and I'm excited to use the next version because it'll fix issues and add features that I'll actually want to use. I'm on openSUSE, and here are some things that I've been excited about recently:

KDE 6 - fixed Wayland for me, so I was able to switch back from GNOME
reproducible builds - I can now theoretically verify that everything I install is built properly instead of having to trust them
cockpit is coming to Leap 15.6 - YaST on the CLI is cool, but clunky; this sounds like I'd get largely the same thing, but through a web browser (i.e. access a port via SSH tunnel, no remote GUI required)

Software should entice you to upgrade, not force you to upgrade. That has never been the case for me for Windows, so I bailed and now use Linux, where it absolutely is the case.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't think we should call it that but damned if the analogy doesn't fit.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, perhaps "authoritarian mentality" would be better, but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It's called possessiveness when humans do it. Thinking of someone as your possession. It doesn't have the bite to it as a term but it's 100% the case that companies think they own their users.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

"Incel mentality". Thinking they deserve the world on a plate without doing the work to earn the reward.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I'm sure almost any other name is less charged...

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

I loooove my openSUSE desktop. 11 was the last straw. No amount of AI is going to bring me back.

I HATE advertisements, and I paid for Pro but it seemed like they didn't care. They want to milk me for everything I'm worth.

Good thing we have options. Linux has gotten so good, it's better than Windows 11 while letting me decide how to use the OS. Big learning curve, but it's smooth sailing when you get past it.