Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People ditching their PC because they don’t need it anymore doesn’t explain that the relative share of Mac and Linux has increased for the past 15 years though. Unless for some reason Windows users are more likely to ditch their PC because they don’t need it than Mac or Linux users.

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  • bent@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think thats exactly it. A lot of the people begrudgingly have a PC. I bet most of those just use whatever the PC came with. Linux and Mac users are more likely to enjoy using a PC.

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    • TheodorAlforno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linux users NEED their computer. You don’t put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Average people are also more likely to ditch their PCs than Linux users.

    See the recent meme: Image

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just installed Mint and some games on 5 Thinkpad T420s my boss was going to throw out. Sunday’s LAN party was pretty fun.

      Is this my future?

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you’re lucky

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901…

    Both Linux and MacOS look fairly flat overall, with a few spikes for Mac. What did happen was iOS and especially Android went to the moon.

    Most people had a PC for a bit of light office work, emails and storing pictures. All of that can be done on a phone and more besides. It’s not great that a handful of Silicon Valley techbros are holding everyone’s data to ransom, but that’s what the masses are doing.

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  • Jamablaya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could quite literally just get by on my phone these days. I only use the laptop for the larger screen and something to hold an extremely large capacity SD card, as for whatever reason samsung flip phones don’t have that anymore.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MAC sales peaked 10-11 years ago.

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