I noticed it with windows 10. Something about m$ requirements that turned me off. Mainly the forced updates, which is why I switched to Linux. Funny thing is its foolish to not update. I guess for me back then it was a control thing. Fast forward to the present, the slow roll of lesser control continues. Local windows accounts may be a thing of the past in the near future which, no doubt, will prompt many to switch to Linux.
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I’m going to be honest: I don’t think many will switch. The complete normies won’t really care. The somewhat tech savvy will go with Windows 10 Enterprise from different sources and use that if they can. Very few want to try Linux. Even fewer can replace Windows with Linux at the moment. Some do have good reasons why they don’t switch. It will certainly put more eyes on Linux from the tech savvy public, though, and some will be brave enough to try it out and see what happens. So while there won’t be many new Linux users, there will certainly be a new bump upwards for us.
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Sure but Microsoft has/and is doing far worse things then local account removal.
And killing off Windows 10 well before it’s time is gonna push far more people to Linux!
Moast people can’t or won’t update to Windows 11.
Like I would NEVER put Win11 on my Wife’s computer she gonna go to Linux next year as well.
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I mean, nothing really stops users from just… continuing to use Windows 10 on their computer, as insecure as it might be? Alongside that, as I said that tech savvy users who don’t want Windows 11 have Windows 10 Enterprise. Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is being supported until 2032, but it has some things missing.
Sure but continue with Win10 after thy drop support for it is dangerous and could lead to a lot of Bad things down the line!
And pay for continuing support HELL NO!(that will go up once a year).
I know, but we’re talking about normies (for the lack of a better word) here. They won’t really care. Some might even pay up. Some might even purchase a new laptop/computer to deal with this issue.
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Yep, we have saw this happen before with Windows 7. Some people are still running it to this day.
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About 5 years ago, 2019, I created a small “welcome to me” website for a friend. She was happy, but one part of the site looks horrible when she visited this site from work. The site only contains a small logo, html and very very little css for font size and formatting, maybe 10 lines. I couldn’t figure out whats wrong, so I visited her at work. They used Internet Explorer 8 and some PC with Win98, just because Win95 didn’t support USB. They used everything from the installation cd, included OutlookExpress. It was an engineering office for expert opinions, btw.
After I’ve seen that, I made a screenshot of the problematic address-section, put the image on that site and dropped the contact to this high-end place.
No support won’t stop the world from using risky software. Living on the edge, adventures, dangerous expieriences… be the Conan in a Terminator ruled world!
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A fitting description, in a topic about Windows users 
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If the security and privacy concerns and all sort of shenanigans from big tech companies including Microsoft so far have not driven users in large droves to alternative platforms, I don’t see that it would be the case this time around either.
Some will, a few, but the majority will go about their business as happily as before creating a Microsoft account, signing into their Windows and look out at the brave, beautiful world outside as if nothing.
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I dont think so. Most users just dont care. They happily use facebook or whatsapp, have Alexa or Siri devices spying on them in their living rooms and happily store their data in the microsoft, apple or google cloud.
Possibly. Some call the ones who dont care normies. Does that make the ones who do care abnormies? Theres actually something appealing about going through life not caring. That is until something hits the fan 
I’ve got a friend that is still running win 7 
So no doubt that peoples will keep running w10 and Microsoft can’t just block they’re computer for forcing them.
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Many Windows users have upgraded to W11. The vast majority of Windows users will keep using Windows regardless of which version it is. It’s all they know and all they want to know, just the way it is.
Linux Desktop users now equal about 2.14% of the market.
Those metrics are pretty worthless because Linux distributions don’t collect telemetry to report back to home to verify that you are using Linux, one of the only Linux devices that does collect telemetry is the Steam Deck. Unless those metrics were collected with user-agent data when browsing a web-page where you can see what OS someone accessing the website is using, but that person could still use an agent spoof-er?
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft implements some way to stop ordinary people from using Windows 10 that is kinda half baked and can be by-passed, but requires one to actually tinker with stuff. I don’t know, though. Maybe they aren’t that dumb to do such a thing, since after I said it out loud, it seems like a good way to shoot yourself in the foot more than anything.
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Well thy already have done similar and dumber stuff!
A word of advice never underestimate the stupid!
Or BIG corporations!
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Honestly the biggest driver of Desktop Linux growth will be digitalisation in India. Desktop Linux (excluding ChromeOS) has a 15% market share in India, which is about 5 times higher than in the rest of the world.
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Yep, having lived and worked there for 5 yrs that is probably pretty accurate.
Maybe, maybe not, but there is no way to accurately count the users. They use a conglomerate of 15 different sources so probably as accurate as any other gathering of numbers.
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