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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)

submitted 6 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don't want to bother themselves with. You don't simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I guess that kinda makes sense.

But we'll, Ubuntu was basically the average computer user's introduction to Linux (even if it kinda sucks now), I kinda think it could still do the job fairly well... only for those users to switch to a potentially better distro.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Opening the command prompt in windows is considered 'hacking' these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Oh, I use it quite a lot.

Once I spent a few days with Ubuntu, I had a very strong reliance on the terminal for simply installing stuff (because I wanna avoid that Snap Store), it takes some time to learn, but I don't think it's that difficult.

[–] CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

You are correct. This is what MS is counting on. Usability is something MS saw as unnecessary (just a cost) back in the '90s, and instead counting on the ubiquitous nature of windows and the office suite to dominate the market. It will be a quite the hurdle to overcome for any competing operating systems.