I walked away from Windows after they rolled out that 365 bs. And that was before all the pedo vax geo engineering horrors were known about Gates. Linux has been as good if not better than Windows.
About time.....put linux on a serious gamer machine and just watch it fly....
I have often run nearly 100 tabs on an Alienware....and seen no drop in speed.
My upstairs computer is Windows 11 Pro.
My basement computer (the one I am using right now) is Linux Mint 22.1.
I have a degree in computer science. All my several computers are Linux based.
To me it is the difference between needing a calculator to do 2+2=4 and writing it out on paper and explaining it to teach someone.
Windows written by people like me, presumed y’all to be idiots.
Windows financial success proves that. We got richer and y’all didn’t learn a darned thing.
I’ve been desktop onboard for at least 7 years.
I still have some legacy boxen/laptops [dual boot for the laptops] for reasons, but am NOT going back.
Others in the household have gone to Apple [Me too for my hand-me-down phones and a hand-me-down tablet].
Well, let’s be fair here, that survey also hits a lot of IoS and IoT installations - raspberry pis, ESP32s, etc.
I’ve got two main Win11 computers running in my house, two macOs computers (really love how the Macbook Air and a MacMini can share a keyboard/mouse), and 4 raspberry pis - since the main raspberry pi handles most public traffic throughout the house, all 4 of those computers show up on the survey as Pis.
A second pi scrapes data for weather, a third handles most of the streaming traffic in and out of the house, and a 4th pi manages mostly local storage and the VPNs - which means each cell phone comes in as a Pi desktop as well (well, 3 instances of the same pi...)
An actual survey of users would provide much more useful data.
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I have always been a windows guy, but I have done some work with Linux Server.
at least I pretty much only run server skus which are much nicer and more private than the stupid win11 stuff
Has Netcraft confirmed it?
Are you still using Pop!_OS?
If so, is it on a System76 computer, or your own?
Windows is losing share because the interface is dull looking and you are restricted from making simple changes without getting 3rd party software or going into the registry to fix when it was lots easier in Windows 7 and earlier. It is getting more confusing with each version plus the treat of bitlocker encryption forced upon you and if corrupted causing the loss of all your files.
Adding ads to the OS does not help either.
I just put Mint Cinnamon 22.2 on a Dell laptop. Dell sells this laptop with Windows or Linux. So this means laptop very Linux compatible. I tried Linux Mint a few years ago and found install of new apps/programs to be very difficult.
This time around installation is easy.
Mint Cinnamon PLUSES>>>
1-It has nightlight that turns down blue light part of spectrum at night. And does this as well as Windows 11.
2-Using Chrome and Edge is the same as using them on Windows 11
3-You can look up the whys. But Linux Mint and maybe other Linuxes, give you a brighter display than Windows 11. So now I can use this laptop outdoors in the shade. I tested this at 8AM. This Dell is rated at 250 NITS of brightness. With Linux the brightness is at least 300-330 NITS.
-4 No more Microsoft telemetry phoning home. I despise having to use a MS account to use Windows 11.
-5 Linux is more secure against hackers. Plus since the Linux desktop market is only 5%, too small for hackers to invent viruses and backdoors for. My bet is Android is the most hacked OS these days.
6- More secure Linux means I will feel better doing money transactions.
7- With Linux Mint the laptops display really pops out. I watched a few 4k you tube Japan travelogs in HDR, it looked other worldly. Yes the laptops display in only FHD/
The only slight negative is finding the fonts i like for Edge and Chrome. My go to Windows fonts are not there. It is all Linux fonts.