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.
It works for us. We don’t do anything really complex, and I don’t know how it works for other people. But we’re very glad to have it.
When it happened, Husband was thinking of trying to ‘bisect’ (or whatever you geeks call it) and run both Windows and Linux; but we were so happy with Linux, we forgot about that.
VMS was the best by far.
Good illustration of how sorry Vista and Win8 were. And how good XP was.
“It works for us. We don’t do anything really complex, and I don’t know how it works for other people. But we’re very glad to have it.”
For the average user it is fantastic and I love it! It pretty much handles like Win 7. And it is rock solid and stable with very few problems at all. And so secure it doesn’t need antivirus or anti-malware.
Cool thing is if you did want to do things more complex you can without restriction. Because there is no proprietary code and you can recode anything you want to if you have the knowledge. It’s yours and belongs to you... Not “Theirs” like Microsoft.
You can literally take any distro as a base and create your own custom Operating System and package if you wanted to. Yet it is simple to use right out of the box for the average user. :)
“Husband was thinking of trying to ‘bisect’ (or whatever you geeks call it) and run both Windows and Linux; but we were so happy with Linux, we forgot about that.”
The same thing happened to me. I added Linux “along side” Win 7 as what Microsoft calls “dual boot”. After using Linux for a couple weeks I realized I would never need MS again. That was over ten years ago and I have not looked back since. And as MS just gets worse and worse by the day I am happier and happier that I changed over.
And people are always coming up with new things you can add to it.
There hasn’t been anything that I want to do for which I couldn’t find an app.
(But again, that’s me, and my small needs.)
“There hasn’t been anything that I want to do for which I couldn’t find an app.”
There are thousands of apps. The big ones MS folks can’t live without are Turbotax, Word, MS 360 and that one MS game they just can’t live without.
Linux has alternatives for all these too, but they are too lazy to take the time to learn to use the alternatives. I have even heard complaints about it doing what they need but they don’t like the default icons, fonts, or colors. To some an icon, font, or color is the hill to die on I guess... lol
All of which can be customized and changed if it is that big of a deal. And with Linux you can without restriction. In fact you can probably get exact copies of the MS parts to do it. Check this out for Mint Cinnamon desktops... There is so much you can do with it if you want. :)
Win 10 theme
https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/Windows-10
Win XP
https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/Mint-XP
“Last gas until Christmas.”
Best way I’ve found for a dual boot system is to have Win and Mint installed on separate SSDs. That takes a lot of potentially troublesome issues off the table. That’s how I run my utility laptop.
“Secure Boot”
I've had to do a System Restore 4 times since December [you can put off the forced update for about 5 weeks], because they changed the functioning of the desktop without a by-your-leave, taking away some of the features that I liked.
I should have my dual-boot in place by the middle of May.
“Secure Boot”
Yeah, that can be turned off though. Well on most machines anyhow.
As you know it has to be turned off to install Linux.
“Best way I’ve found for a dual boot system is to have Win and Mint installed on separate SSDs. That takes a lot of potentially troublesome issues off the table. That’s how I run my utility laptop.”
I don’t use MS anymore at all. But I have many different distros and optional whole system with storage independent external drives. Cool thing about Linux is you can install a whole system with storage onto a USB drive and run it from that as it’s own independent machine, it just borrows the hardware. Swapping these drives is like swapping machines.
“Windows 11 is basically a form of rape.”
Absolutely, For me it started with Win 10. You have to be a masochist to keep putting up with it.
#17 don’t you have worry about the giant lizards there that can swallow you whole? 🦎 : )
Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
Windows XP, then Windows 7, followed by Linux Mint. All of them were/are geared towards the user, not the corporation. I still have a system that I could run XP on, and I have the installation disks. Perhaps, one of these days.......
When DEC finally came out with an 8088 desktop PC running DOS, they tried to sell it without a FORMAT program! You couldn’t take a generic floppy and format it, you had to buy your proprietary floppies from DEC!
For this among other reasons, the DEC Rainbow flopped.
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