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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

More than 50% of people are using Win10 and M$ are about to stop supporting it. That's trouble brewing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

No it is not. MS stopping 10 support early sucks, but the average user doesn't know or care.

For reference, by the same point in Win10's lifetime, 40% of users were still on Win 7, and by the time they stopped Win7 support it was 20% still. Phone manufacturers advertising ongoing software support has made this a bit more relevant or prominent, but most PC users will only update as their OS tells them to, and if the OS goes silent they'll just keep chugging along. We know this, it's how it's been forever. "People still on Windows 7" was a bit of a meme even at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This.

The first time users start to change OS is when Chrome or Steam doesn't work because of the unsupported OS version.

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