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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

Last month, Statcounter reported a notable decrease in Windows 11's market share, and the trend continued in April 2024. After reaching its all-time high of 28.16% in February 2024, Windows 11 plummeted below the 26% mark.

According to Statcounter, in April 2024, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, going down from 26.68% to 25.65%. All those users seemingly went for Windows 10 since the OS, which will soon turn nine, crossed the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023, gaining 0.96 points.

It is interesting to see Windows 11 losing quite a significant chunk of users in the middle of its cycle. Even Windows 8 and 8.1, universally considered not great versions of Windows, only went down after the release of their successors. True, Statcounter is not 100% accurate in its estimates, but an almost 3-point decline for a product with over 1 billion devices is too big to dismiss.

Some argue that Windows 11 still offers little to no benefits for upgrading, especially in light of Microsoft killing some of the system's unique features, such as Windows Subsystem for Android. Add to that the ever-increasing number of ads, some of which are quite shameless, and you get an operating system that has a hard time winning hearts and minds and retaining its customers.

Later this month, Microsoft will showcase new AI features for Windows 11, which could become the first solid reason to leave Windows 10 behind. However, rumors indicate some of the most exciting parts will not be available on existing hardware. Therefore, customers who do not plan to upgrade their PCs simply have no reason to stay with Windows 11.

As for Windows 7, despite the no-support state and the continuous developer support exodus, it is still alive and kicking. Statcounter says about 3% (-0.04 points) of all Windows PCs are still powered by Windows 7, which was fully discontinued in January 2023. Some developers still release updates for Windows 7, but most mainstream apps and browsers ditched the old OS many months ago.

 

[The Ugly One]

his is also why Microsoft really doesn't seem to try or care that much. While not outright hostile, we're really not worth much to them.

It's basically this:

a PC that you can't game on because Microsoft won't let people use direct X

Every game that matters is also on PS5, and Sony doesn't use DirectX. It is really not hard to write the graphics code for multiple APIs, which is what pretty much all modern middleware has to support, or you're either not going to run on Playstation, or not going to run on Xbox, neither of which is an attractive option.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

I'd still be on Win 7 if my computer hadn't fried

I shifted couple months ago because browsers started breaking, I couldn't even access my emails, it would give a 404.

to stop Edge from pestering you to keep using it and get the start menu to not show ads

These are the only things I haven't done, I would like to know how to do them.

 

[BaronOfTheTaigas]

Windows 11 was so shit I bit the bullet and unironically learned to use Linux.

 

[Spunt]

Just had to get a Win11 system because of motherboard failure.

It's fucking terrible, but I did some reading and I've managed to kill off the telemetry and used an app to get the Win10 Start menu back (being able to customise the Start menu was one of the best things about Win10, but of course they decided they knew better than you what should be on the Start menu, fuck you peasant). It's a bearable environment now, and I've made it as private as I can. I'll dual-boot it to Linux though and start to learn that.

Good utilities to un-fuck Win11:

Explorerpatcher (I used it to bring back the Win10 Start menu but it can do a lot more things in file explorer if you want it to)
PolicyPlus - Lets you set group policies on Win11 Home as if it was the business version, I used it to disable telemetry, OneDrive and other bullshit but has loads more power if you need it

That said, though, what a waste of time and money. I "upgraded" my OS, and it was worse in every way, then I had to use third party programs to bring it back up to the usability standards of the previous version. I can't think of a single thing in Win11 that I like more than Win10, or even Win7 for that matter. The end user experience is worse unless you are a retard who needs their hand held, but if you are one of those you should be using MacOS anyway.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

Most Linux distros would be orders of magnitude more popular if they weren't intentionally obtuse. They didn't need to be so difficult to use or user-unfriendly; the designers made a conscious choice during development to make them that way. The whole reason big bad Windows is so popular is because it is mostly a straightforward user experience. Just make your Linux version work more like Windows. (deal with it.) You can keep all the fancy features and command lines and sudo whatevers. But people want to click a window and drag it around and make things bigger or smaller and install programs without feeling like they're trying to keep Skylab in orbit.

I accept that using some variant of Linux means that certain programs simply will not work. And I think most people also accept that going into it. But the fucking nerd covens that design these things need to learn how to talk to girls and be more normal.

I think this is the actual reason why Linux isn't more popular as a desktop operating system. The average person who doesn't know anything about computers would try to bring over all of the software and gaymes that they used on Windows and expect it to just work. It's the same reason why macs never got that popular.

If Linux wasn't full of autistic infighting and could consolidate their efforts into a single distro, now would be the time to strike.

That would ruin one of the best things about Linux. Choice. It's like saying cars would be better if car companies eliminated everything that wasn't an SUV and focused on making SUVs better. The autistic infighting isn't even that bad. People have personal preferences and simply gravitate towards working on or using software that fits those preferences.

Troons mostly.

There are a lot of normal European people involved in FOSS Development and there are a lot of troons at FAGMAN as well. It's basically troons + Europeans vs. troons + pajeets + DEI hires that are happy to perpetuate enshittification as long as they continue to be paid obscenely high salaries to do so.

 

[United Abominations]

Microsoft is trying to ruin dual boots with linux after threatening to obsolete windows 10

Right as I was about to slowly jump ship to Linux Mint in a dual boot, and had a Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC partition, a security update convienently makes it so dual boots don't work

Considering the Windians are patching out TPM 2.0 workarounds and removed the windows 10 taskbar from the OS, this is intentional and a response to millions of people threatening to jump ship to Linux if W10 goes EoL

I reinstalled Win10 IoT enterprise LTSC and will have to use that for my dual boot because JFC

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Microsoft is trying to ruin dual boots with linux after threatening to obsolete windows 10

Right as I was about to slowly jump ship to Linux Mint in a dual boot, and had a Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC partition, a security update convienently makes it so dual boots don't work

Considering the Windians are patching out TPM 2.0 workarounds and removed the windows 10 taskbar from the OS, this is intentional and a response to millions of people threatening to jump ship to Linux if W10 goes EoL

I reinstalled Win10 IoT enterprise LTSC and will have to use that for my dual boot because JFC

Yet another reason to just ignore secure boot entirely. I always turn it off in BIOS. Is this the best security practice? I don't give a fuck. Shits annoying.