I thought that osx also saw active user count drop? I think it’s people simply don’t need a laptop/desktop at all.

Yes, as I said, most went to mobile or tablet, so Android or iOS. Basically Windows users went to one of Android, iOS, OS X, or Linux. Some OS X users meanwhile went to iOS or Android.

Try KDE Plasma, you can put one clock on your second monitor that opens a calendar...or 10. Whatever you want, really.

That's great, but like, this was a native and very obvious feature in Windows 10 and every other Windows that I remember, and they somehow chopped it and never replaced it.

Yeah, in general Windows 11 just assumes a lot of things "for" the user, and if you don't like it you're often out of luck or have to resort to third party tools to restore previous functionality.

Lost those 400 million in 3 years no less. I know this seems like good news, but to me this is worse, because it looks like the PC market is shrinking fast in favor of mobile, and mobile is atrocious when it comes to user freedoms.

Microsoft killing the desktop with 0 innovation

And yet i still can't click on icons on the taskbar to bring up a window that is behind another. Gotta use "alt+tab" until I get to the window I want to show up. At first I just thought it was my PC at work but I later found out that it's every PC in the entire building. It's absolutely infuriating that features that've worked for 30 years are now suddenly broken in Windows 11. I started migrating to Linux for my home PC and it has only made me hate Windows even more when I go into work.

grabs popcorn

UFC is over rated.

.............now I want to open 10 different calanders at once. In different colors. But only use the pink one. I'll close the other 9, and grumble "GOD DAMN COMPUTER!!! WHY DON'T THEY FIX THIS SHIT???"

And again.....only use the pink one.

So was unlocking the taskbar and dragging it to the left side of the screen, now you literally can't. Apparently you can modify it via registry but half the buttons stop working because it isn't designed for that.

Crazy that that was what made me switch years ago....

Weird, I only get this with windows hello.

But seriously windows 11 has so many shitty fucking bugs. All my computer's except my work computer are mac or Linux. It really opens the eyes to how poorly built windows is these days.

"Thing set to die soon now worth less than the only other option remaining."

400 million windows devices not users.

Oh they're "innovating" just not for the benefit of their users

That's why windows 11 overtook windows 10, people just got rid of their windows 10 devices

we commissioned a brand new pc containing windows xp two weeks ago

"Finally"

I have no idea why windows 11 axed that and it just makes the UX worse. It doesn't even make it simpler for noob users.

Same difference. If someone has a Windows 10 device and got rid of it, but didn't purchase a Windows 11 device to replace it, they're no longer a Windows user. Sure they could have had multiple Windows devices for some reason, but it's rare for someone to own more computers than they have potential users to operate them (barring things like schools or companies that maintain a fixed pool of devices, although even they try to avoid having significant excess inventory). So yes, fewer Windows devices is to within a certain margin of error fewer Windows users.