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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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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (47 children)

Our old asses are over here learning mint and Ubuntu on new machines. That wasn’t on our 30s-40s disco card.

It’s fun. Everything looks good, then attach the external monitor to the laptop and it won’t detect. There’s a workaround, there’s almost always a workaround, but these basics of windows are in pieces in Linux.

The basic expectations with windows, like monitor detection, aren’t necessarily there.

Spite is a hell of a fuel though. Oh and I still have my win 10 disc and put a fresh install on another machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

that's why i switched to a mac instead of linux. i love linux on my servers, but for day to day productivity? nothing beats the "turn it on and go" of a mac. of course you pay for it with money (for a mac) or time (for linux)

but at least i don’t get full screen ads for windows 11!

[–] TangledHyphae 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can I put an Nvidia 4090 in a mac for AI and gaming purposes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

do you really not know the answer to that?

[–] TangledHyphae -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I have an IQ below 42, pardon my mental disability sir.

[–] gaael 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have a job opening for you in the coming administration, are you going to be available for a job starting in january ?

[–] TseseJuer 1 points 1 month ago

you must have a sad life to throw politics in so randomly. stop watching Fox News and get some sunshine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was almost gonna be a smartass and say you can, but then I realized that there are no nVidia drivers. You CAN use an AMD external GPU on newer Intel Macs, but even the newest Intel Mac is pretty old now. They still get software support, but the performance isn't comparable to Apple Silicon anymore, so you'd have to sacrifice a lot of CPU power and efficiency to be able to use an eGPU that doesn't even have CUDA.

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