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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base (www.tomshardware.com)
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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

In your case Nobara is the perfect distro. It comes with steam preinstalled and has a lot of gaming tweaks. I used it as a daily driver a year ago, but it wasn't something for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    No worries here. I've been on EndeavourOS for 3+ months now. Im just saying there's enough crossover that I think the steam hardware survey will show the uptick over time.

    Tbh, I've wanted to cut over to Linux for years, but I hadn't due to game support. We're at a point now with Proton that there's almost no reason not to, unless you're that beholden to games that install rootkits, er, kernel level anticheat, in which case just dual boot.

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