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Windows has taken a significant drop over the years, going from being used by over 90% of people to being dropped down to under 60% (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 11 points 1 month ago

Aren't macOS and OSX just different versions of the same thing? Why break them out when Windows is all in one? Never been a Mac user, someone help me out.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Still needs to drop much more.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    At this rate, it will. Windows 11 is a turd, and i don’t expect it to get any better unless shareholders get rid of the current CEO.

    Foreign governments are trying to wean themselves from US tech. That’ll be a big chunk soon. I expect they will roll their own unix/linux distros.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    What's the anomaly around 2023/2024 where people seemed to switch to OS X and then back?

    That doesn't seem like a switch people would undertake lightly, considering they'd need new hardware.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Since it's just a share of total usage, that doesn't necessarily mean that people switched.

    There were a lot of layoffs in 2023, and big companies tend to use Windows as their enterprise desktop. So a drop in Windows users at the enterprise level would necessitate that other OSs now have a larger share of the remaining pie.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Isn't this based on web traffic, and if so it is very unreliable due to the large amount of bot traffic?

    It is clear Windows is dropping, and it's great. But probably not at this speed.

    Anyway, it's the year of the Linux Desktop, now's the time to switch!

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