Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    It’s so wild how Windows boasts about backwards compatibility but doesn’t support hardware from 2010. It’s literally a fully functional 64 bit system but it doesn’t have SecureBoot so it won’t let me install 11.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      That is because they are still required to improve their software, and that means sometimes cutting off a part of their support. Especially when it comes to security.

      But hey, support for hardware that is 10 years old is unfortunately still way ahead of the competition, Mac can’t hold a candle.

      And you could still bypass the TPM requirement with some elbow grease.

    • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Well, it‘s software bloatbackward compatibility, not for hardware.

      And to be fair, that actually works quite well. Had a 20 y/o negative scanner driver that I could install relatively easily on windows 10. The first party macOS driver stopped working more than a decade ago (needs PowerPC compatibility) and the only modern third party driver software that gets it to work on Win, Mac and Linux costs 100€.