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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No it is not. MS stopping 10 support early sucks, but the average user doesn't know or care.

For reference, by the same point in Win10's lifetime, 40% of users were still on Win 7, and by the time they stopped Win7 support it was 20% still. Phone manufacturers advertising ongoing software support has made this a bit more relevant or prominent, but most PC users will only update as their OS tells them to, and if the OS goes silent they'll just keep chugging along. We know this, it's how it's been forever. "People still on Windows 7" was a bit of a meme even at the time.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago

How could you not mention Windows XP in this comment. MS kept up support for a surprisingly long time while encouraging everyone to upgrade (and rightly so), but even 5 years after they completely dropped support, they had to release a security update to protect against a widespread attack because a ton of organizations were still using XP.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago

Sure, that works, too. The reason I went with 7 is that it's well covered in the portion of the Steam survey one can easily check, but this type of lackadaisical transition leading to an increasingly frustrated Microsoft is such a staple of Windows history in general.

[-] fschaupp@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

This.

The first time users start to change OS is when Chrome or Steam doesn't work because of the unsupported OS version.

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