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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

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[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The only reason I'm still on windows is I run a weird 3 monitor setup on a Nvidia GPU.

Even then I could probably switch but I'm too lazy

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

If you feel up for it, boot into the live disk for Mint. Lets you trial the OS without touching your OS install.

But, I hear you on the lazy angle. Momentum is a hell of a thing.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Note that my three monitor setup with an nvidia GPU actually works better in Linux.

Mainly because when I plug the laptop in, I have to turn the third monitor off and on again to make it 'wake up', but in Linux, all three reliably start displaying.

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

What distro? Wayland or x11? What resolutions and refresh rates do these monitors have?

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

3840x2440, 2560x1440, and 1920x1200. Wayland and all of them are probably just 60hz screens.

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I heard that using different non multiple hz on x11 can be troubling.

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