• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      That could actually be a reasonable view, considering Windows has fallen off since the late 90’s or early 00’s, depending on what version you draw the line on.

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        To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%.

        But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it.

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          2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows.

          Generally it’s a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11… nevermind.

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        Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat.

        Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that.

        The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond.

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          yeah that’s the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like “All creators should be on YouTube” because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView…

          I’m the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess