Windows is far from dying.
Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
This might have been said, but I just see this as a wild attempt to stay relevant and lock people into hardware. Windows is (slowly) dying. Gamers are starting to leave for Linux and Proton, which will also only help the Mac gaming market share. Linux on ARM honesty seems like the future for most devices. The corporate world and anything that’s in too deep with Excel is, I feel, the last big hold out.
Haha@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I do (perhaps sadly) agree with you, just think there is some more nuance to it than that. See my reply to the other comment if you want to see my thoughts.
adonis88@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Sometimes comments seem to reflect the desires of the commenters rather than an accurate reflection of reality. “Gamers are starting to leave for Linux and Proton” is an example of this because it is obviously the wish of the commenter and contrary to what is happening in the real world.
Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Fair. I definitely did not acknowledge my own bias. There are numbers showing the growth of Linux in both gaming and general. The steam deck alone is showing many people, including hardware manufacturers, the power of linux. That is directly pushing and growing the portable gaming market, which takes market share away from Windows. This will continue to grow, and I believe negative sentiment towards the bloated experience the vast majority of users are getting with Windows is also growing. I have only anecdotal evidence as far as I have seen quite a few articles about various “features” in the last month, but again within posts from my slice of the internet. One such article was about system popups basically begging you to use Edge, another this change to the keyboard, and one about ads/sponsored links all over the OS.
The “slowly” in parenthesis and “I feel” in my final line of my original post, did not acknowledge the slice of the internet I generally consume content from, which absolutely does have some collective bias against windows.