alt Hacker NewsIn wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780K Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux
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Turns out if you keep pushing stuff on people, you might open their eyes to the fact that they are not free to choose how they do their computing.
Stallman was right. Choose Free software.
I hit the wall over the last month. The last version of Firefox that works on my Win7 workstation where I do almost everything is too old for some banking websites to work so I have been using a Win10 tablet for a couple of sites. That is the straw that shifted the pile from Windows to Linux for me. I have had to sort through family member's issues when they upgraded, intentionally or otherwise, to Win11 and from that I know that I have reached the end of the trail that began with PC-DOS 3.0 a long time ago.
Maybe the way to really hit windows is to put pressure on the gaming companies to support steam os
This is a bit misleading. They have have achieved 1 million downloads of their new version that just released. The downloads coming from Windows machines is not definitive as many Linux users mask their user agent.
Not to mention I'm very skeptical that 780K Windows users just happened to discover a more obscure Linux distro suddenly and switched to it in October while Windows 10 is still supported. This is basically an ad for the OS.
If Windows was my main OS, I'd probably be the same and use Omarchy or something. Thankfully I saw the light and have been using Mac personally for the last 15 years, used Mac at my last workplace for 8 years, but unfortunately my current workplace is Windows only. Makes me lose the will to live - it's so bad!