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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop (futurism.com)

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[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

All machines come with windows pre-installed, no one ever needs to worry about different flavours unless you work in IT and manage windows devices.

I haven't had to worry about which windows to get since windows 98.

Fyi, I'm on Linux mint now.

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

All machines come with windows pre-installed

I was curious, so I checked the laptop offers in our local shop aggregator (arukereso.hu)

    Operating system       Number

    Windows 10 Home        8
    Windows 11 Home        677
    Windows 10 Pro         23
    Windows 11 Pro         1661
    Windows 11 S           21
    Linux                  74
    macOS                  141
    Chrome OS              5
    FreeDOS                506
    Without OS             679

2390 / 3795 = 62% windows

[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No one who doesn't know anything about installing windows is gonna buy a laptop without os or with freedos, so you can deduct those too.

The real choice for probably 99% of consumers is between windows and mac.

The point was that end users extremely rarely need to worry about what windows flavour they need. The laptop already comes pre-installed with the correct flavour OS for that laptop.

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I agree, if not by mistake the cheaper FreeDOS, buyers will select the windows preinstall I presume. I was checking if all machines come with windows. Clearly not.

With what frequency they choose what offering, is a harder question to answer and would give a different distribution. MacOS would be higher, and without os and FreeDOS close to zero.

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Isn't that what I'm saying? Windows isn't prevalent because there is one edition of it, but because it's the default.

Apparently this is downvote worthy information?

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