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In 2018, Windows died at home and nobody cared

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Where are you seeing the above-quoted text? Is it a ZDNet/CBS or Microsoft website?

Would love to share your outrage, but can't find it on either.

It's copied straight from ZDNet's cookie management modal.

Not seeing any modal. Is it regional (I'm in the EU)?.

Maybe µBlock° was blocking it. You can access it directly at https://l3.evidon.com/site/425/3445/22.

what a load of crap. Windows is the only OS that can play modern PC games reliably. There are millions of homes with Windows 10 PCs, and your article sounds extremely desperate.

Agreed. I've been using Linux exclusively on my desktop for the past......4 years or so. I'm on the verge of building a new desktop with a Ryzen APU because I have a bunch of games that I want to play. Steam on Linux is amazing but still no comparison to running Windows on a machine.

I recommend looking into VFIO. IIRC it's not quite possible with the Ryzen APUs yet but you can use a dGPU for the guest system.

Ten years ago everyone had a Windows PC, even if they only did light word processing and web browsing. That’s just not true anymore. Windows remains the only viable platform for PC gaming, but the difference is that it used to be the only viable platform for any number of tasks, and few of them remains. There are of course millions upon millions of pc gamers, but relatively speaking that’s still a niche market. It remains to be seen if Microsoft will care about maintaining Windows as a gaming platform when that’s all there is, considering that they do have the Xbox.

And they are intent at killing off any stragglers by ever more intrusive advertising, auto installing crapware, and persistent useless notifications.

Yeah right,

https://www.fnac.pt/informatica/h10

Out of curiosity, what is that link supposed to be? Not loading on my end.

The Portuguese home page of FNAC European store chain, loaded with all computers pre-installed with Windows 10, with the exception of a few Apple ones.

That doesn't really say anything. The argument isn't that Microsoft is ceding Windows' territory to a competitor, it's that the product category as a whole is shrinking.

Naturally, consumers can now keep their computers until they break, the 2 years upgrade cycle is gone.

However when those consumers buy a new computer, it is still plain old Windows.

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