I switched to Linux. :3
Samesies :3
Pretty much every one in tech at my company has switched from a Windows OS to Linux or Mac in the last year. Almost no one who knows that there is a working alternative is choosing to use Windows in their personal life.
I switched after 30+years on Windows/DOS. I got my mom to switch, one (or two) of my brothers have switched, my little niece’s first computer is running Linux. In the span of a year, my family went from 100% windows machines to about 70%. Hell I got my friend in another state to switch to linux, and he’s really running with it. Microsoft has a lot of momentum, they can endure these losses by relying on their business platform, but unless they commit to making a clean, light, privacy-focused, secure and stable OS, we will probably see the last Windows in the next decade.
They seem to have forgotten that businesses and home users want mainly the same things - stability, ease of use, common sense settings. Business users also want network management tools, but a lot of home users do, too. The problem is, no one is getting what they want with Win11. I don’t know how Microsoft thinks that’s going to end, but I only have one home computer that uses Windows anymore, and I’m switching it to Linux soon. It’s Win10, so it isn’t terrible, and I both can’t and don’t want to upgrade it, but I have a year before security updates stop. I also plan on getting another computer or two into my home in the near future for self-hosting, and I’m not considering Windows for them, either.
Linux Mint gets the job done and I needn’t anything else. Long live the penguin!!
Me too. I had a custom gaming computer, but windows didn’t support it for windows 11. It took me awhile to find the right distro. I dealt with the same thing on the Linux side with people telling me I just had to replace all my hardware for Linux compatibility. Finally found CachyOS and it’s been one of the first times everything just worked on my computer.
One of us, one of us!!!
I had already switched, I just nuked my old windows partition that I was keeping around for literally one program. Then I got some standalone DJ decks, and the program to export MP3/WAV/OGG/FLACC to work with them only runs on windows, so I got a win10 m$ surface 5 for £30 and it’s only jobs are to format stuff for the decks, read totally legally sourced manga, and practice hiragana/katana/kanji.
And… honestly? I’ve got my whole music library formatted and transferred to a usb for the decks… probably going to wipe it and install Nobara or something with the Surface Kernel Patch preloaded…
Computers in my house didn’t support the TPM requirements. They work fine for everything else… Not buying a new computer just for Windows 11. I have 11 on my work computer and hate it. Home PC is mainly gaming (driving sims) now and I can’t be bothered to try to spend time getting that all going with Linux. I (and I suspect a lot of other “holdouts”) have better things to do - it’s just not a priority.
I mean the windows 10 kill certainly pushed me… to linux.
Should have switched sooner. Didn’t realize what I was missing out on.
Pretty sure the drop had more to do with PC price increases from the AI-driven component shortages than the quality of Windows.
Two things can be true!
Hardware prices are particularily problematic for Window users who need to buy a new computer because Windows 11 is not compatible with their not-so-old computers.
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I don’t agree - Windows 11 was already really shit and losing popularity, then high prices may have put off some people who were thinking of upgrading their hardware to run it.
i was using windows 10 because I primarily use my workstation for gaming, and ten years ago linux gaming wasn’t great. Then Steam pushed the envelope, but I was too lazy to switch. All windows 11 had to do was not be shitty, and I probably would have upgraded.
Now, I’m back on linux; my rightful home.
Microsoft’s Windows OEM revenue fell 27% in the July to September 2026 quarter
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Jokes on them. I loaded 7 onto an old rebuild, and my next old one in going to be XP Pro just for fun. Already have 4 others running different versions of Linux.
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.
It is not the holdouts, it is just that year of Linux desktop has arrived.
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 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.
I used to dual boot, not anymore. MS won!
Edit: Just to be clear, I only use Linux now.
Why are y’all hating on Microslop? They are awesome! They gave me the biggest gift of all with Windows 11. A high-speed-ticket to Linux freedom after 30 years of Windows. Fuck Microslop.
