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Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shared a report: It took quite some time for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7, but it finally did it in December 2018, at least according to NetMarketShare's figures. In February however, Windows 10 actually lost share, while Windows 7 gained some, narrowing the gap between the two operating systems once more. In March though, roles were reversed, as Windows 10 made some big gains, and Windows 7 lost a sizable chunk of its share. In the month just gone, NetMarketShare shows Windows 10 going from 40.30 percent to 43.62 percent, a big gain of 3.32 percentage points. There is currently a gap of 7.11 percentage points between Windows 10 and Windows 7.
But the numbers very clearly say what a large number of users think. If Windows was a democracy, the win10 party would _not_ win.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I know you guys love playing jokes, but this is unbelievable. Everyone knows that Windows RT has gained an average of 5.6% market share per month for the last 18 months.
ARM is the future and you all know it.
It is pretty much accepted that BSD is more or less dead. Which doesn't mean that no one at all uses it. However, BSD is slowly fading into oblivion. That is the truth. It is now a hobby project mostly, after losing its last commercial source of support. Of course I don't care what anyone wants to play with. That is their business. But nevertheless there should not be an intentional cover up of the truth.
I was about to ask what you were smoking, but then I remembered that today is the day that normally-reliable news sources actively lie to their readers.
Why this is even news? Who cares?
All my computers run on Windows 9, and I see no reason to upgrade. I bought licenses for a great price off some Chinese website.
I'm very happy with Windows 7. It runs fast and stable on modern hardware.
I realize I'll eventually have to go with Win10, but only if I do a major hardware upgrade. Right now, my 6-year-old system does great with audio and video rendering, graphics, etc. I practice safe innertubing, and don't have malware problems.
The hot mess that is Windows 10 is just unattractive, and I won't hold my nose and plunge in until I absolutely have to.
The people who want to use their computers, and not have them get in the way will be using Windows 7 as long as their machine functions. Microsoft dropped the ball, and has come back to their senses yet.
I'm assuming this thread will become a Windows 10 shit slinging-fest so I'd like to remind everyone our alternative is GNOME 3.
Apparently the extended support prices for enterprises have finally motivated some orgs to upgrade (it is all about what is cheaper to maintain compliance).
Chances are loads will switch to Linux, because after so long, basic shit won't even work on windows 7 because the lack of releasing drivers or something stupid. Plus it will get really insecure over time, it is windows. And you will be vulnerable to all kinds of remote exploits web and IP based. Maybe even get owned on some wireless exploit because you can't get updated drivers or something. Once there's not enough users on windows 7 to justify. Hardware companies will stop making/updating windows 7 drivers.
What's the point? We are force-fed Windows, so any percentages are artificial.
Windows 10 is a buggy, bloated mess, but the simple truth is that Microsoft still has the desktop OS market by the balls.
"Loads" will not switch to Linux.
Linux still have a reputation for being hard to use on the desktop, hard to figure out, and lacking in support for hardware and major software packages.
So long as it has that reputation, people will keep paying Microsoft money for a product they don't actually like.
It has that reputation because most people don't even know how to create a boot disk. let alone have ever even tried it live. All we need is steam to keep pushing on the gaming side and that will bring the rest. Unfortunately it seems like games lead the development pack.
Windows 10 is being forced onto the people, it's not like they have a choice of OSes when they buy a new computer.
Links to articles show Microsoft's VERY poor management.
The Snake eats its own tail
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Why does Linux have to suck so hard?
I've tried all kinds of desktops. GNOME 3 has got to be one of the most ridiculous watered down pieces of shit I've ever used in my entire life. I fail to see how it is even taken seriously by anyone.
I installed mint xfce... this was the most usable desktop Linux I've ever used but that's not saying much. My fucking god... font rendering is STILL total complete and utter shit. Try to setup a terminal with a useful small font and it's fucking impossible. Most fonts don't display correctly at all. The ones that do have weird color fringes due to aliasing. Disabling aliasing is a million times worse. The only way I could get it to be half way usable was black text on white background.
Linux font processing is insanely bad. It's total utter and complete shit. No wonder why Linux people jumbo size their fonts.
I literally installed all of the fonts available literally gigabytes of them and most of the basics are still missing. What the fucking hell? Windows XP.. fuck NT4 was never this bad.
I see absolutely no reason to move off windows 7 - and many many to stay. except the lack of security updates in future.
seems it was the last windows UI designed by someone who used the operating system - instead of some numbskull who thought a touch interface was suitable for systems without touch screens...
And I must say Windows 10 I am not happy with it. The UI is totally inconsistent and parts are really ugly (there is a checkbox in some native dialogs that just looks atrocious), Chrome crashes three times a day, and overall things are sluggish. Maybe WLAN support is better on Windows 10, but I am even not sure about this.
If only our corporation would also us use Win7. My Win10 just yesterday installed latest mega-patch, which took literally two hours, even on a relatively modern i5 laptop with 20GB of RAM and fast SSD. After the update was done, I had to waste one hour of work time to unbox all the privacy invasions, shared experiences and whatnot. But still the enterprise windows has some gaming panel, cortana, 3d-paint, AR-apps, and all that useless crap as uninstallable distractions on the start menu. And of course all the app advertisements, autocorrections and typing suggestions were enabled again, no matter if they were disabled previously. And surely edge restored its home page to some MS' advertisement page, so the automatic edge-launch after updates gains some money to MS via advertisements.
So in the new fiscal year, people are buying new computers. They're not choosing Win10, they're forced to take it. Even if they never once use it other than to check if the damn thing operates because the seller will only accept "Doesn't work on Windows" as broken. Even if it doesn't even POST.
For a start, irrelevant. Linux could have 0% market share, it wouldn't matter a single solitary fuck. Secondly, only official purchased licenses are counted for linux, so only a very small segment of the linux market: businesses, count. Linux could have 100% of the market (all my machines have linux on it, though only one has only linux on it), and it STILL wouldn't matter, but it would ALSO still be true that Linux has a low % share since I downloaded the distro, not bought support.
Sucking is entirely your opinion, mate. So the only way for it not to suck is for you to not be you. Sucks for you, don't care.
Fonts are better displayed on linux, only Win10 caught up, but since WinVista, linux was ahead. USA law allows fonts to be copyrighted, which means that you may miss some but that isn't linux sucking, that's you being a tightwad and not buying the license for the fonts.
Your ranting whinge is entirely either fiction or your own inability to WANT to use linux and therefore your desperate need to "explain" your ideological needs as "rational".
I don't know why you're modded to -1 but well : corruption and spyware is there in linux in the form of Steam.
I stopped using or installing it after realizing what it does is keeping permanent timestamps and records on every game I'm running through them and I probably gave them my real name because this is what I did with stuff that needs my debit/credit card.
Why are people using such old software? I'll give you one reason why.
I have a photo scanner which only has drivers for Windows XP through 7. I am not about to dump a perfectly good piece of equipment, which does the job perfectly, just because Microsoft wants to take more money off me.
I can imagine that out in corporate land, especially manufacturing, there are a lot of peripherals which don't have up-to-date drivers. Guess what OS will still be on those machines? Right, a version that does what is needed for the device to work.
As much as I liked Windows 7, its very old for a OS and barely get's much support but security fixes. Time to move those old PC's onto something else. I myself chose Ubuntu 18.04 over Win 10 for a older notebook simply because its probably not worth buying a Win 10 license for. Much of the Win 7 holdouts are business and users who simply cannot afford a new PC or a Win 10 upgrade. There are still people out there running XP for the same reason.
Mostly because I started updating Win 10 two weeks ago, and it's still not finished.
I think that a lot of people will keep using Windows 7 until they can't get application software updates for it anymore, and then they'll go buy whatever $200 Windows 10 laptop they can find on sale at Walmart or Best Buy.
If you think that an average user can handle installing Linux and getting all of the device drivers working correctly on their 5 to 8 year old laptop, you're overestimating the average intelligence of an average computer user.
Windows 10 = The biggest spy / advert / user-hate platform ever built.
I run Windows 10 and it's just fine. Anyone with just a smidge of common sense and who isn't distracted by their constant axe grinding, will do well.
Seriously, I've been using Windows for like 30 years. Do you honestly think that every version of Windows hasn't had problems? And no, that isn't automatically an indictment of Microsoft, no matter how you slice it. Linux heads love to claim superiority but they've got the debacles of Gnome3/KDE3 to explain away, and let's not even start with the systemd sh*tshow.
You know how I know what I know about Windows? I use it, every day. Good, bad, or indifferent, I've been through it all. It's a working world for me and it would be the same if I used Linux, Mac, BSD, or anything else. Nothing is perfect and expecting it to be perfect is part of the problem.
Honestly, OS's like Ubuntu literally do ALL of that work for you now. And any 6-8 year old laptop that was good enough to not break by now most likely has ALL hardware drivers for it in mainstream kernel. Its to the point where I call Ubuntu 'Windows 10 of linux' And Mint 'Windows 7 of linux". And its not far from spot on.
Be honest, when is the last time you tried linux? And what issues did you have?
People are not opting in to win10 or out of win7, we are simply being forced to "upgrade" if we want to upgrade hardware...
Well the big issue I have, on a 2017 laptop is the cursor speed with the touchpad is slow.. and I have no idea how to fix that (Synaptic)
Feels like high end smartphone stuff on Win 10, slow like molasses on linux and acceleration setting doesn't work.
It's a very small issue but it's one (if setting the display res at 1600x900 instead of 1920x1080, there are fewer pixels to cross and unscaled GUIs are better usable too, but touch pad still is slow / irritating)
I still ought to toss a coin some day and install linux either on that small weird D:\ partition or wipe the drive. See what happens when using 5.x kernel and ppas for Xorg / MESA that linux gamers use on Mint/Ubuntu LTS.
I would check to make sure synaptics package is installed, and you should be able to access control of touchpad from your DE settings menu. I carry a wireless mouse around with my laptop because i cant stand touch pads.