• yesman@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

    To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

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      23 hours ago

      25% of the world still uses Windows 7. People aren’t going to switch to Linux when they have an OS that just works.

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        1 hour ago

        That would be 1 in 4 users and that’s just not accurate at all.

        What you mean to say is 25% of Windows users still use windows 7.

        Its still an alarming statistic, and no wonder bruteforce cyberattacks are still so effective today considering it hasn’t received security updates in like 10 years.

        I sincerely hope those people aren’t connecting their devices to the internet like, at all.

        I’m fairly sure at this point even using a Debian based distro is better than sticking to windows 7.