This one is Computer OS popularity over time:
Posted on 04/27/2024 3:10:42 PM PDT by Signalman
These are the most popular computer operating systems from 1985 to 2024, based on market share. The latest numbers from 2003 on are readily available from Wikipedia and Statcounter. The first half of the video required a bit more research, which entailed finding and converting sales figures into market share. These numbers may be different based on what OSes are included in the stats, this is why different videos have slightly different numbers.
Check out Classic Shell. I’ve used it for years o Win 10 and 11 systems and never see that metro shite. Win 7;is one UI option.
It is interesting. I enjoy these types of videos.
In concept, it compares to the video that dynamically shows the top 20 countries by GDP over time. Place in the world on the Y axis, time on the X axis, and as the years roll by, countries rise, countries fall.
Apparently MacOS lost out as well...
This one is Computer OS popularity over time:
Same here. yet to see an damn thing better about 10. Wife has 10 and I am called to help. Clustfudge, MS moved things all over and complicated things for reasons only software geeks might understand.
7 is reliable and easy to use. Why stop using what works just to be fashionable?
Ah yes, the days of feeding your cards to the IBM 360 to find your typos. THe machine the school had to read and give you a printout was notorious for eating cards.
So, feed them to the computer and hope you did not screw up.
“I’m with the Penguin. Most reliable (and honest) OS I’ve used.”
Tux rules... :)
Digital Equipment Corporation! Made THE fatal flaw of dismissing PC’s as “toys” and betting future on workstations.
Once a Fortune 10 company. Ancient an soon to be forgotten history.
Ken Olsen was a genius.
“I wish they had been able to keep/maintain the XP GUI with all its features, and ‘simply’ update “under the hood”, if you will. So many folks used and worked with XP and still miss it’s basic simplicity.”
That is basically what Win 7 was.
“Short summary: MS/DOS overtakes Unix after a few months, and then after leading for a few years, it’s Windows Whatever for the rest of time.”
Because MS made deals with all the computer manufacturers to lock all the other Operating Systems out of the industry. And it is STILL like this or Linux would have put them in the dirt long ago if it was a factory option. If it wasn’t locked out, Linux would have screamed past MS when the garbage Win 10 came out.
Whatever my budget requires. :^) Around here I’ve got about six different OSes of different dates (maybe more, if I really think about it and include the ones running inside VMs).
started out with cp/m, then msdos, all the windows flavors till win-11, Ibm Risc-6000 Unix, now Linux Mint. Been at this since the mid 70’s. Hardware wise old IBM System-3’s then midrange mini’s both DEC & IBM, all PC flavors. Now decades later using an old bastardized PC with intel motherboard running linux and happy as a clam with it. Regression at its best lol.
Thank you for sharing that. I run Mint too. I have one install of 18.3 cinnamon that is 10 years old with absolutely no issues and I have never had to run an update on it yet.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. :)
Current I am on now is 20.0 and I like it too.
True dat. Still need it for some things. Wine won’t handle everything.
VAX/VMS was superior, absolutely.
At one point DEC was outselling Dell. It didn’t last long though!
-SB
Read later.
the guy who wrote VMS also wrote WNT, nice touch with the alphabetic symmetry... 8^)
Windows 10 and 11 have worked perfectly for me. Hardware is very strong these days. More than strong enough to push through any code bloat that Windows 11 allegedly has. I have tried out Mint Linux and it has 3 major drawbacks.
#1- Current Windows has free programs you can get for downloading video and MP3 from YouTube and Rumble. Other video platforms too. I found one for downloading Twitter videos.
#2- At nighttime (Now!) I dampen the blue light from my LED monitor. So that my monitor has a slight red tinge/ Linux Mint has a joke of a program (called Red Shift) for doing this.
#3- Windows 11 Print Screen (screenshot) is greatly improved these days. I use this daily.
These days I like and use a ——>>>
CPU with a Passmark score of 10000
16GB Ram
An NVMe drive of 500 GB with a 1TB 7200 RPM spinning drive for storage
For phones —— Samsung and Android. I will never buy an iPhone from those Cupertino fags/
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