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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You mean 7, right? Most people skipped 8, and that's why Microsoft made the update to 10 free.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I stayed on xp until I got a new pc during 7, then I stayed on 7 until I got a new pc during 10. I'll probably stay on 10 until whatever is after 11 comes out, even though I know better, because I just don't care enough.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No they'd still be running XP if they could.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I know i would, lol! I def fit the type being described. I just jumped over to Linux after having a hard drive crash necessitating the installation of a new OS. I was just gonna go with windows 10 again but it was giving me fits trying to install it for some reason. Starting to wonder if i had a bad PC and not a bad hard drive, i decided to make a bootable usb stick with Mint using an old laptop. Eventually i got it to boot up my PC and i never looked back. Took a little while to get used to the new system but so much of it works the same way as Windows that i had little trouble bridging any gaps. I don't do PC gaming though, so i probably haven't run into the problems that i imagine are preventing others from making the leap. I guess I wouldn't bother going back now even if I could, now that I'm talking about it...I'm very happy with Mint.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I know someone that is deathly afraid of tracking by Microsoft to upgrade their pc from Windows 8. They won't spend the time to learn linux, as they use a proprietary app specific to windows for what they use. I point out Win8 has the same kind of data collection and they dismiss it with a head-in-the-sand response.

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