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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop (futurism.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All machines come with windows pre-installed

I was curious, so I checked the laptop offers in our local shop aggregator (arukereso.hu)

    Operating system       Number

    Windows 10 Home        8
    Windows 11 Home        677
    Windows 10 Pro         23
    Windows 11 Pro         1661
    Windows 11 S           21
    Linux                  74
    macOS                  141
    Chrome OS              5
    FreeDOS                506
    Without OS             679

2390 / 3795 = 62% windows

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    No one who doesn't know anything about installing windows is gonna buy a laptop without os or with freedos, so you can deduct those too.

    The real choice for probably 99% of consumers is between windows and mac.

    The point was that end users extremely rarely need to worry about what windows flavour they need. The laptop already comes pre-installed with the correct flavour OS for that laptop.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I agree, if not by mistake the cheaper FreeDOS, buyers will select the windows preinstall I presume. I was checking if all machines come with windows. Clearly not.

    With what frequency they choose what offering, is a harder question to answer and would give a different distribution. MacOS would be higher, and without os and FreeDOS close to zero.

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