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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base (www.tomshardware.com)

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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is a shame that the article has been updated and Microsoft is denying the drop. I will get excited when the drop is reflected in Steam data.

[-] ejizar 1 points 16 hours ago

Will not happen. Privacy conscious people who have evaded Microsoft don't use Steam. Being closed source software, they collect huge amounts of data.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Sure it will, there are a ton of people who want to get away from the trash that is Microsoft and play Steam games, myself included.

[-] ejizar 0 points 15 hours ago

In your case Nobara is the perfect distro. It comes with steam preinstalled and has a lot of gaming tweaks. I used it as a daily driver a year ago, but it wasn't something for me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

No worries here. I've been on EndeavourOS for 3+ months now. Im just saying there's enough crossover that I think the steam hardware survey will show the uptick over time.

Tbh, I've wanted to cut over to Linux for years, but I hadn't due to game support. We're at a point now with Proton that there's almost no reason not to, unless you're that beholden to games that install ~~rootkits~~, er, kernel level anticheat, in which case just dual boot.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

Bazzite as well, which uses the Atomic backing, so it is more easily recoverable in case of an oops.

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