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submitted 5 months ago by Owl@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

lmao

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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

That doesn't really check out. People upgrading to 10 would explain 10's share going up (at the expense of earlier versions), not 11's going down.

People buying new computers doesn't work well as an explanation either; it'd require over 2% of all Windows users to have bought new Windows 10 computers in the last few months. When presumably a brand new computer would be on 11.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

since market share is a proportional statistic, any increase in the market share of one thing must correspond with a decrease in others. If I've sold 1 apple and 1 pear, the market share of each is 50%. If I sell an additional apple, the apple share increases to 66% while the pear share decreases to 33% despite no actual drop in pear sales.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Like I said above, that'd require over 2% of all Windows installs to be new installations of Windows 10.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i remain similarly skeptical that so many people would be actively downgrading their OS. for the vast, vast majority of people any qualms with W11 aren't going to lead to learning how to reinstall a fresh OS. there's got to be something more going on

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

The same site also shows Windows overall useage going down in the same time

I'd love to say it's people getting so fed up with Win11 that they install Linux, but judging by the graph and how these stats are collected (percent of page views), I think it's actually Win11 users getting so sick of it that they browse the internet with their phones more often.

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