Win 11 got so bad over the last years that Linux is the better option now.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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I was one of the 400 million.
windows dying doesn't help. they are on a shopping spree buying every AAA game that tencent haven't already bought.
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Given there’s 7 billion people on earth, I’m a bit surprised this number is so low at only 1.4 billion. People will usually have a home computer and then use one at work, plus all the devices in data centers and other environments where they are not used as a desktop.
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I wonder how many millions of computers are going to end up getting thrown away because they don't meet the ridiculous requirements for windows 11.
I just recently built a computer, though truth be told it's basically my wife's old computer stuffed into a new case, we've been holding onto her old components as she's done upgrades. So it's basically a roughly 10 year old computer, it has one of the last AMD processors from before the ryzen era, but it was a beefy computer when she built it and it's still managing to run most of what's out there on acceptable (for me, I'm not exactly a graphics snob) settings.
Of course it's not gonna be compatible with windows 11, so I've been figuring out what my next move is going to be. Most likely I'll bite the bullet and build basically a whole new PC and recycle this one into a home server or something, it's definitely still got a lot of life left in it, but I'd be lying if the idea of just going over to Linux isn't really tempting
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400 million user loss doesn't sound like "quietly shrinking". Sounds like outright hemorrhaging users because instead of improving, you are consistently making products shittier each year.
It's from people ditching home PCs for phones and tablets. That's it. End of story. There are no significant numbers of people switching to Linux. They simply went to no PC.
10-15 years ago I could have made an OK living fixing home computers. That time is long past.
now they try to backtrack by giving another year of w10 updates if the user:
- logs in with the microsoft account
- enables backup to onedrive (presumably filling it so they can nag all the time "hey buy our cloud subscription")
- uses bing as default
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Because they made it shit....
I must be in the minority but generally I like Win 11. Most of my clients still on Windows as well so I have to keep up to date...
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Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.