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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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[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Gaming and Clip Studio Paint for me. (Maybe some other stuff that I just haven't thought of.)

Needless to say, every day my Windows 11 machine bugs out on me I get closer and closer to just giving Linux a solid try for the first time since college.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do it... I switched about a year and a half ago, and I can't ever imagine going back. And gaming is amazing on it. I've been using Bazzite for several months now and it has been awesome.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Aw. Bazzite can't do Nvidia GPUs. I'm still rocking an RTX 2070 and likely will be for a good while.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bummer... Aren't the open source Nvidia drivers half-decent these days? I purposely went with AMD knowing I would be doing Linux gaming on it.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

No idea, I was just looking into Bazzite specifically.

[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bazzite has a standard build specifically for Nvidia GPUs. It supports back to GTX cards so your RTX 2070 will work. Source: I'm typing to you from my PC running Bazzite with a 3060 TI. The only thing this version doesn't support is the Steam gaming mode desktop environment. Steam the application still runs fine and all the games I play work. You can run KDE or Gnome desktop environments. It's time!

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I just learned that this morning. The Bazzite website still has a piece of text on the site that explicitly says it doesn't support Nvidia stuff, but it looks like that's an artifact that just needs to be removed.

Perhaps I shall look into it.

[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do it! Do it! Easy to dual boot and test it out. They have a great discord for any questions that come up.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gaming was one of my reasons as well initially, but it has gotten a LOT better on Linux in recent times by the look of it so I just have music remaining on my list. I also don't use CSP but I have many friends who do art and can understand not wanting to move away from it.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I used Krita (which works on Linux just fine) for about a year and a half. But once I went back to CSP, I immediately felt that "oh this just works and doesn't require a million workarounds for stuff" sigh of relief.

I've also seen some folks have gotten CSP working on Linux, but it looked like a pretty hairy process. And with CSP having no official Linux support, they might break that process at any point.

It's tough. Might be worth it anyway, depending on how much Microsoft continues screwing the pooch here.