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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

What I see time and time again are people saying “I HAVE TO use Windows at work, but I don’t use it at home”.

So, logically that means Windows is losing market share to Mac and Linux, right?

Well, no. What I see over the past 20 years is that people just stopped buying PCs for personal use.

At this point, it really feels like if you’re over 55, you’re in the minority if you own a PC. If you’re younger than 30, you’re in the minority if you own a PC.

And for 30-55 year olds, it’s simple. You grew up with PCs, so you’re used to them. Everyone else just sees it as “that thing we use at work”

So, no. People dropping microsoft from their own personal lives doesn’t mean they switch to linux. It just means they use their cell phone or tablet to browse the web. Because for most people, thats all a pc is anyways. Just a machine to browse the web on.

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partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
PC gamers under 30 would be considered a significant minority compared to other <30yos?

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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Compared to console and mobile gamers, yes
  
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Surp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Definitely not to mac…I use mac and windows at work and Mac is by far the worst OS. It’s so damn locked down it’s obnoxious.

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kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, I have like a dozen colleagues between 25-60 and I can think of maybe 2 that have a PC outside of their work laptops. And those are both gamers.

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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well even with your observation, it could well be losing share to Mac and Linux. The Windows users are more likely to jump ship, and Mac and Linux users tend to stick with the platform more, mainly because it’s not actively working to piss them off. Even if zero jump to Mac or Linux, the share could still shift.

The upside of ‘just a machine to run a browser’ is that it’s easier than ever to live with Linux desktop, since that nagging application or two that keeps you on Windows has likely moved to browser hosted anyway. Downside of course being that it’s much more likely that app extracts a monthly fee from you instead of ‘just buying it’.

Currently for work I’m all Linux, precisely because work was forced to buy Office365 anyway, and the web versions work almost as well as the desktop versions for my purposes (I did have to boot Windows because I had to work on a Presentation and the weird ass “master slide” needed to be edited, and for whatever reason that is not allowed on the web). VSCode natively supports linux (well ‘native’, it’s a browser app disguised as a desktop app), but I would generally prefer Kate anyway (except work is now tracking our Github Copilot usage, and so I have to let Copilot throw suggestions at me to discard in VSCode or else get punished for failing to meet stupid objectives).

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