• DFX4509B@lemmy.org
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    11 hours ago

    If Win11 adoption is really massive, it’s because MS forced it down people’s throats.

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      3 hours ago

      Irrelevant. Windows 11 is well over 50% of respondents on the steam survey, has been since late last year iirc. Windows 11 is the best Windows OS, and arguably PC OS, there has ever been. People are not getting fed up with it or moving away to Linux. Factually they just aren’t.

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        7 minutes ago

        So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and having Copilot/Recall shoved down your throat for the versions of that OS that a normal consumer can legally and readily obtain, make Win11 the best PC OS?

        Windows 11 is the best Windows OS, and arguably PC OS, there has ever been.

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      7 hours ago

      Compared to Linux adoptions (and I mean every distro combined), the adoption of Windows 11 is ginormous.

      The reason it was “forced down throats” is because the average user doesn’t give a shit and would still be on Windows 2000 if it came with their computer.

      Yet they would still blame Microsoft if anything went wrong.

      For comparison, if people adopted Linux the same way, you’d have people still on Corel Linux.

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        15 minutes ago

        I was thinking more in terms of MS locking out everything prior to Coffee Lake or Zen+ from running Win11, rendering a lot of otherwise still viable hardware obsolete, killing off Win10 GAC, and essentially forcing the purchase of a new PC with Win11 installed.