Just had the Steam Survey pop up and so as always decided to participate and quickly look at some of the stats. I was honestly a bit surprised to see Windows 11 drop by 10.43% in February. Year of Linux Desktop now lol?
Just had the Steam Survey pop up and so as always decided to participate and quickly look at some of the stats. I was honestly a bit surprised to see Windows 11 drop by 10.43% in February. Year of Linux Desktop now lol?
If you expand the header, windows overall gained 1.99%.
Where are you seeing that? I see Windows 11 gained, but Windows lost 4.28% overall.
This was from the February survey that op was referencing.
Ah my bad, didn’t realise I could expand that, never really participated in the survey before.
I find that quote interesting that W10 had a bump, like I get W11 is a bit of a piece of hot garbage, but running an unsupported OS over that? Or am I mistaken here too about W10 being end of life?
Lots of people don’t give a flying fuck about running unsupported OS’s on their machines if it still does everything you want, security tends to be an afterthought.
Though this is windows we’re talking about so security wasn’t ever really a forethought in the development process of it so I can’t really blame the users.
Technically we are still getting security updates for another year provided you jump through some onedrive backup loophole.
I will re-examine how lazy I am vs the difficulty of Linux in 11 months time.
I’m an idiot and Mint has been a piece of cake, even installing it, even with an NVIDIA graphics card and gaming. My biggest regret is not doing it sooner.
Caveat: I don’t rely on Adobe products, YMMV depending on your exact needs. But I don’t even have Wine installed because I just haven’t needed it.
Have you heard of WinBoat?
It runs a Windows VM in the background and then connects to it using remote desktop.
Give it a try now. There’s loads of user friendly distro choices now.
There is extended support for a year. Even without an MS account and for several more years if you use massgrave. There are also ltsc (iot) versions which will be supported until up to 2032.
Ah okay thats fair. Are these extended supports easy for the average user to access? Or is it more of a ‘if you know what you’re doing’ type thing?
i dont remember the details of the official way since i switched to linux before that. but for the unofficial massgrave stuff you need to be somewhat of a nerd i guess.