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Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Last month, for the first time, Windows 11 was a more popular OS than Windows 10 in the Steam Hardware Survey. Of course, this is an imprecise science as people have to opt in to having their machines measured but it's a sign of wider adoption. Windows 8, on the other hand, never made it big enough to do the same in its lifespan. Windows 7 was a very popular OS and adoption even to Windows 10 was fairly slow initially, partially down to that skepticism.

You can't cite the jump from 7 to 8 or 7 to 10 without also remarking on the fact users had far more.control over updates back then.

Yeah, Windows 11 adoption is up, because most people don't have a choice, or they didn't care enough to stop it happening automatically, and don't know how to roll it back. That doesn't translate to approval.

At a certain point, adoption rates just don't matter anymore because increasingly the user doesn't have a choice anymore.

[+] sugar_in_your_tea -10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course, this is an imprecise science as people have to opt in to having their machines measured but it’s a sign of wider adoption

They already account for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They don't, that quote is talking about the steam survey, which allows steam to read what OS the user is using. The point OP is making is that the only reason W11 is more popular than W10 is because Microsoft is forcing the update

[–] sugar_in_your_tea -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, and Valve accounts for people choosing to not take the survey. That's just how polls are typically conducted.

[–] pyr0ball 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know valve isn't Microsoft right? Those are two different companies with different agendas?

Steam asking for consent for a survey doesn't make up for the lack of consent in updates pushed by an entirely different entity

[–] sugar_in_your_tea -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, and I'm not talking about Microsoft here. That's why I only quoted the part about Valve's stats and pointed out that it's not necessarily an issue that users can opt-out of that statistics collection.