I did switch. To linux.
Lots of people have systems without windows 11 requirements: TPM or are on processors that arent supported by windows 11. Microsoft made a choice to force a lot of people to buy new computers and it didnt work out for them. Its not that people made a choice to hold out, they got left behind by msfts idiotic product choices.
This all started when they skipped 9. Seven was good, 8 sucked, 9 would have been good. They broke the cycle.
Ten was the beginning of the end, and 11 is when the wheels come off.
They reap what they sowed.
It is not the holdouts, it is just that year of Linux desktop has arrived.
I refuse the update as well, and run Debian on a virtual machine when I am done messing around with gaming or whatever. Not doing any damned dual boots any more at this stage of my life.
That Windows sales are crashing could also simply be because of the crashing PC market. People are buying fewer PCs and Notebooks, which often come with Windows preinstalled.
That is the primary cause of this. Mac sales have decreased, but they’re taking a greater market share
I mean the windows 10 kill certainly pushed me… to linux.
Should have switched sooner. Didn’t realize what I was missing out on.
I’m still on windows 10 and don’t care about windows 11.
Oh, I switched. And after one year of W11, I switched to dual boot Linux. And now I’m thinking to move W11 to my very old SSD drive as a backup option.
I refused to switch, I use windows 11 at work and I don’t like it so at home I just switched to Linux and that was it.
Windows 10 is still getting security updates through October 27, so it still is definitely safe to use.
October 27, 2027, if you’re in Europe IIRC
also massgrave.dev for longer.
Killed Windows 10?
Seems quite alive on my personal laptop.
Less holding out and more wondering why I should get a new mobo and cpu (When mine work perfectly fine) to run a new OS I only ever hear bad news about.
Sales? Who’s paying for a windows license?
Most people who by computers are. It’s usually baked into the price of the hardware.
At least, it used to be. I don’t touch that stuff anymore, so maybe it’s different nowadays.
I paid like 5€ for mine. Not sure about the details, but something about the EU stopping MS from preventing second hand software sales (I think), so you can get them super cheap. Bought the key like 5 years ago and zero issues whatsoever. At that price it’s not even worth pirating.
I used to dual boot, not anymore. MS won!
Edit: Just to be clear, I only use Linux now.
It was the push I needed to switch entirely to Linux.
It was already a long time coming, but I kept finding reasons to hold on. Windows 11 was just a line in the sand for me, felt like I was being asked to download malware.
Same here. Switched to Zorin OS and have zero regrets.
