Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10
Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10
It's not winning the hearts and minds.
lmao
(also use Linux)
I rarely get offended, but I say this unironically. Windows 11 is genuinely offensive. It seems like it was designed from the ground up to personally piss me off.
Dogshit interfaces (you have to to click on a separate menu to go to the full context menu)
Dogshit mind numbing widgets (everything is considered BREAKING NEWS)
Dogshit search (oh you installed a program? Will let me bring up a random bing search as the top result, unless you delete 1 character)
I hit windows and type, and there's like a 3 second delay before results post, then the results have ads
I wonder if the delay is due to real time bidding lol
I refused to use 11, but 10 was already messy enough when trying to actually configure things like TCP/IP settings.
you open network settings which was Windows 10 themed, but useless, you click the link for "change adapter settings" which opened a Windows 7 dialog box listing adapters, you right click the adapter and open settings, which opens the old Windows 2000 dialog box, select IPv4, open settings, another Windows 2000 dialog box, which is tabbed for no discernible reason, unlike all the other boxes.
what a fucking ui/ux shitshow
More and more people are saying this!
I’m fortunate enough my work computer allows me access to regedit because I was able to turn off web searches in the start menu. It’s so ridiculous there isn’t an option in the UI to do that.
I hate how I no longer have the option for small taskbar icons. That had been an option since Vista. There used to be a regedit workaround, but a recent update removed it for some godforsaken reason!
I remember when windows briefly removed the “uninstall programs” tab inside control panel to “prevent mistakes” by users lol. I was like in high school and couldn’t be more pissed off
Microsoft will be hoping a blitz of "AI everything, everywhere, all at once" marketing campaigns will prompt users to upgrade to Windows 11.
Lmao it still cracks me up how the rich don't realise how much people fucking hate AI.
They seem to have no concept of how much AI creeps people out. They just expect people to like it because they told them to embrace it as the new thing.
The ruling class is so out of touch and naive, it's mind boggling.
literally. Like that is not a selling point at all. I don’t even like the little ai think they put on 10, I turned that shit off immediately
It's only good for useless busywork like cover letters
I think most people like being able to open ChatGPT and ask it a question.
What they don't like is the horror version of clippy having escaped it's sealed crypt, being interwoven into every fabric of the OS, by means of the phylactery MSWord, and consuming all that remains.
From an /r/technology thread, emphasis mine
It isn't really even about the software, it is the hardware requirements. Win 11 with the TPM modules and required chips will always mean it has limited share at least for some time. Many machines simply can't upgrade to Windows 11 from 10. Windows 10 will have staying power like Windows XP due to that.
I like Windows 11 and all machines updated except for one from 2016 that is more of a fun computer that just can't justify putting money in it for the TPM or updated chip.
Yeah, this isn't people downgrading to windows 10, or refusing to update. Rather, this is because people are upgrading to Windows 10, and LOTS of existing computers are old and do not meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11.
Windows 10: 70.03% (+0.96 points) Windows 11: 25.65% (-0.97 points)
Those are percentages of the total. It may be some people downgrading but it's not worth it. More likely there are more Windows computers and the bulk of them end up on windows 10.
The "Microsoft is washed, people don't like 11 anymore" angle is tempting but I think it's the less likely reason compared to an increase in sold hardware that literally cannot run 11
I built my PC in 2018 and it cost thousands of dollars. It does not meet the hardware requirements.
I updated my mobo in I think 2020 and it doesn't meet requirements lol.
That doesn't really check out. People upgrading to 10 would explain 10's share going up (at the expense of earlier versions), not 11's going down.
People buying new computers doesn't work well as an explanation either; it'd require over 2% of all Windows users to have bought new Windows 10 computers in the last few months. When presumably a brand new computer would be on 11.
since market share is a proportional statistic, any increase in the market share of one thing must correspond with a decrease in others. If I've sold 1 apple and 1 pear, the market share of each is 50%. If I sell an additional apple, the apple share increases to 66% while the pear share decreases to 33% despite no actual drop in pear sales.
Disagree with any assertion its not software. I won't go from 10 to 11 even if I get a TPM card. I'm forced to use it at work and its incredibly bad. Like dollar store Windows 8.
It's just another layer of UI on top of windows XP. You still hit XP dialogs when you have to do anything useful. Now you just have to get there through 11 -> 10 -> 7 -> XP and if you really need to do something useful you'll hit a DOS prompt at some point.
Easy to install windows 11 as long has you have a CPU less than about 15 years old. MS just makes it slightly more inconvenient and won't tell you that you can do that.
I think I know how Microsoft will respond to this. 12 will be worse than 11.
Windows has a long history of every second version being shit. 2000->XP, Vista->7, 8->10, 11->Something slightly less shit than 11?
I think they'll dial back some of the most visible bad parts, while keeping whatever are the most profitable, and a lot of people will go along with it.
Windows people seriously should just use Linux Mint though.
95/98/ME was kind of the other way around. 95? Shitty, unstable OS. 95B/SR2? Surprisingly stable, by Win95 standards. 95C/SR2.5? Shitty OS again because of the Internet Explorer integration baked into everything in the fucking shell.
Same deal with 98 -- the initial release was a crash-prone mess, but 98 SE fixed a lot of that through improved hardware support.
...and then there's Windows ME, which was just dogshit all around. Love it when my OS decides to optimize a slow-ass PATA disk and corrupt the kernel while doing so.
(And Vista was just 7 with really nonsensical branding/segmentation, and released for use on hardware that hadn't caught up yet. Vista Ultimate was legit if you had a beefy enough CPU and tuned a few things in the OS.)
I have windows 11 on my new computer and it sucks. I think windows 7 was the last one where I didn't think it sucked to use. Even just setting up my computer with windows 11 was a pain in the ass, since they make you have an internet connection and use their garbage windows account system. Microsoft is such a trash company.
I didn’t need an account to image a computer with windows as long as there’s no internet. It just boots me right into the desktop once I finish the setup and skip the account registration
Windows 8.1 was all right if you could tolerate the giant tiles start screen bullshit -- adding multiple desktops was a good move, and brought it up to parity with like 1985-vintage AmigaOS or 2008ish GNOME/Wayland. It performed OK, too, since it threw out all the Aero transparency effects that would burn GPU cycles just sitting on the desktop. Unfortunately, 8 also marked the beginning of breaking up the Control Panel apps into touchscreen-friendly counterparts with missing functionality, and 8.1, 10, and 11 have definitely doubled down on that.
Lmao I'm old enough to remember everyone being up in arms about how much win10 sucked (mostly as a reaction to the shit show win8 was). So it's fun to see turnabout being fair play.
Suffering Windows users, embrace salvation! Install Fedora (KDE spin for a similar feel), you won't regret it.
Fedora with KDE plasma was how I eacaped windows.
Many such cases.
My only blocker is making sure the audio equipment and software I want to run will actually work. Are there Linux flavors with good compatibility for Ableton, USB audio interfaces, and USB devices like the Ableton Push? Is it going to freak out if I try to hook up a Roland SP404 to it via USB-C?
I've heard enough nightmare stories about Linux and hardware that keeps me away.
Doing audio production work on Linux is not great, unfortunately.
