Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month

radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that it’s a possibility for the rest of the world.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could it be that something is spoofing a Win7 signature?

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I personally just edited the registry to stom my Win10 upgrading to 11. If it fails, it’s Manjaro time.

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    • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Manjaro might not be the best starting point tbh. So many better choices.

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      • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not that I’m disagreeing with you. I’m just not agreeing with you.

        I personally think that (as unpopular an opinion as it may be) Flatpak’s largely make the choice of first distro irrelevant. The weakness in Manjaro is that you either risk using the AUR or stay on old versions of the software. Or with Mint/Ubuntu/etc… you either risk adding random repos to your sources list or you use older versions of the software.

        Either way, you run the risk of a new person mucking up their system with a bad repo or a bad aur package.

        The alternative, using flatpaks, largely solves both issues for when you need newer versions of a certain software, and are dead simple to install/remove/update, etc…

        And I say this as someone who was super skeptical of flatpak’s for a very very long time.

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    • xep@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won’t install, nor update if it is already installed.

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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        FYI if you have disk encryption enabled you need to pause/disable it first (assuming you’re using automatic unlock using the TPM, which usually is the default)

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still, it’s unusual for that to happen.

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks Microsoft spokesman.

  Why is it that these scores are taken at face value until a corporation doesn’t like them? What you think 4% of a random set of servers suddenly started using Windows 7 to bot pages to drum up Windows 7 support?

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look at the data: gs.statcounter.com/…/asia/#monthly-202408-202509

    Or more specifically gs.statcounter.com/…/singapore/#monthly-202408-20…

    All the data is nice and smooth, slow rises or declines, as usual.

    And then all of a sudden in July and only ins Singapore, Windows 7 goes from <2% to 92%. All other asian countries stay about the same.

    Does this sound likely to you that 90% of users uninstall Win10 and Win11 in Singapore to install Win7 and all that in a span of just two months?

    Or is it more likely that there’s some bug (or some botnet) causing false stats?

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This guy analyzes!

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