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> Windows is loosing marketshare like crazy to Mac and Linux The biggest change I've seen is in the stackoverflow developer survey results and it was like a 10

> Windows is loosing marketshare like crazy to Mac and Linux The biggest change I've seen is in the stackoverflow developer survey results and it was like a 10 percent difference over 5 years or something like that with the gain roughly split 50-50 between macOS and Linux Then in the general population windows market share looks stable I'd love to have a link that shows otherwise though, I've tried to find good data on this

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Meh, Stackoverflow is niche of devs who swing hard in the Mac/Linux camp but don't represent the average user worldwide. Seems like current worldwide marketshare is just 63% for Windows and in the US it's closer to 55% because Macs and Chromebooks eat into that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw
yreg 3y ago
Yeah, "loosing marketshare like crazy" probably only in the software development / designer bubble.
- candiddevmike 3y ago
  WSL + VScode ends up being a better Linux development environment than most distros...
  - gumballindie 3y ago
    In what world. Everyone i know praising wsl - myself included - moved away long time ago. It’s a fake and it doesnt fool anyone other than perhaps amateurs with experience.
    - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      >In what world. Where I work.
      - orwin 3y ago
        Did you had issues with overuse of CPU after a sleep on win10? And vmmem using 7Go of ram with absolutely nothing running on win11? I would rather use the 8G macpro than my 16G windows for any task: 4Go for the ms bloat + 7 Go for vmmem, I'm very, very short on usable memory.
        hulitu 3y ago
        > Did you had issues When you have computer issues in a corporate env, you make a ticket. Of course it does not help to solve the problem, but at least makes you feel better that you did everything you could.
    - flashback2199 3y ago
      A lot of employers say everyone has to use company windows laptops with all the corporate spyware on it
- silisili 3y ago
  Those are a pretty big portion of people who buy and use an actual computer anymore. Sure you still have plenty of other desk jobs using some outdated version of Windows, but the personal market is all but doomed. Even my 70ish year old parents just use tablets for everything these days, and MS has next to zero marketshare.
shantara 3y ago
This and other surveys only take into account desktop/laptop computers. For an average person their Android/iPhone or an iPad has fully replaced their Windows PC. I'm certain that if one included mobile platforms into the marketshare stats, they would show a significant decline in the percentage of people who use Windows.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

Meh, Stackoverflow is niche of devs who swing hard in the Mac/Linux camp but don't represent the average user worldwide. Seems like current worldwide marketshare is just 63% for Windows and in the US it's closer to 55% because Macs and Chromebooks eat into that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw

yreg 3y ago

Yeah, "loosing marketshare like crazy" probably only in the software development / designer bubble.

candiddevmike 3y ago
WSL + VScode ends up being a better Linux development environment than most distros...
- gumballindie 3y ago
  In what world. Everyone i know praising wsl - myself included - moved away long time ago. It’s a fake and it doesnt fool anyone other than perhaps amateurs with experience.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    >In what world. Where I work.
    - orwin 3y ago
      Did you had issues with overuse of CPU after a sleep on win10? And vmmem using 7Go of ram with absolutely nothing running on win11? I would rather use the 8G macpro than my 16G windows for any task: 4Go for the ms bloat + 7 Go for vmmem, I'm very, very short on usable memory.
      - hulitu 3y ago
        > Did you had issues When you have computer issues in a corporate env, you make a ticket. Of course it does not help to solve the problem, but at least makes you feel better that you did everything you could.
  - flashback2199 3y ago
    A lot of employers say everyone has to use company windows laptops with all the corporate spyware on it
silisili 3y ago
Those are a pretty big portion of people who buy and use an actual computer anymore. Sure you still have plenty of other desk jobs using some outdated version of Windows, but the personal market is all but doomed. Even my 70ish year old parents just use tablets for everything these days, and MS has next to zero marketshare.

shantara 3y ago

This and other surveys only take into account desktop/laptop computers. For an average person their Android/iPhone or an iPad has fully replaced their Windows PC. I'm certain that if one included mobile platforms into the marketshare stats, they would show a significant decline in the percentage of people who use Windows.