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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

These articles cater to the privacy centric, super user type people, which is totally fine, but we should remember that we are not the average user. We represent... basically an insignificant percentage of the user base.

Windows is not actually having a problem getting people to upgrade to Windows 11. There is a small minority of people who see the issues and are loud about it, but I guarantee that 95% will update when their computer tells them they have to update (when it does the "next time you restart we are doing it for you" thing).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And a large chunk of this 95% would see that their hardware is not supported, sigh and stay on 10, gradually conditioning themselves to ignore the upgrade notifications.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And most of these will upgrade once they buy a new laptop anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But this would be far in the future for a lot of people still.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows is not actually having a problem getting people to upgrade to Windows 11.

According to this article, they are. It took 2 years for Win10 to overtake Win7 and be more than 50% of the install base. After 2 years of Win11 being available, it only has 23% of the install base.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

To be fair (somewhat) Win10 had the dumpster fire that was Win8 between it and Win7, so it had all the people upgrading from Win7 as well as everyone that had Win8. Not defending Win11 here, I'm never going to use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sheep, they're goddamn sheep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Individual thinking is when you have an aneurysm over telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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