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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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[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode are why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it's basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven't looked back.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

linux desperately needs/needed something like apple for macOS to drive usability. the steam deck is exactly that- one hardware set to really nail the UX and then expand from there.

thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to give that a try myself!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Another recommendation for Bazzite. I've been using it on my main laptop for months now and it's been great. Had to learn a little bit about how to install things on immutable distros (tip, search using "silverblue" instead of "bazzite," the solution will be the same), but now that I understand it, I really like it as a concept. Incredibly stable.

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[–] treverflume@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sunshine worked right out the box too. Very much recommend bazzite. Tried pop os and just could not get sunshine to work with my 3060.