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- Windows 7 was used to browse more web pages on a subset of sites that use the Statcounter plugin, and mostly in one area of the world.
But that doesn't make a good headline.
Could it be that something is spoofing a Win7 signature?
I personally just edited the registry to stom my Win10 upgrading to 11. If it fails, it's Manjaro time.
If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won't install, nor update if it is already installed.
Still, it's unusual for that to happen.
Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.
I think that it's a possibility for the rest of the world.
Thanks Microsoft spokesman.
Why is it that these scores are taken at face value until a corporation doesn't like them? What you think 4% of a random set of servers suddenly started using Windows 7 to bot pages to drum up Windows 7 support?
Look at the data: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/asia/#monthly-202408-202509
Or more specifically https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202408-202509
All the data is nice and smooth, slow rises or declines, as usual.
And then all of a sudden in July and only ins Singapore, Windows 7 goes from <2% to 92%. All other asian countries stay about the same.
Does this sound likely to you that 90% of users uninstall Win10 and Win11 in Singapore to install Win7 and all that in a span of just two months?
Or is it more likely that there's some bug (or some botnet) causing false stats?
Possibly from people booting up 15 year old laptops to see if they‘re still running so they can install linux on them before trying it on the big machine. Yes, this is my made up narrative but I believe that more than in a Win7 comeback.
It’s okay, Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows you’ll need!!!
True enough, I changed to LMDE from 10 2 yeaes aho. Started on 3.1 (from MS DOS)
It was. Linux Mint has been beautiful since I switched last year. Certainly nicer than windows.
Yep, Bazzite has been great for me on my gaming PC. Never going back.
My laptop runs so much better now with Mint after getting rid of windows
The difference in fan speed is always impressive
Yeah it’s nice not having my laptop get scalding hot just during the fifteen minute long start up as well. I’m loving the efficiency
I’m thinking about mint vs Ubuntu. Got any thoughts about which is easier for a tech-illiterate moron like me?
Linux mint is the loveliest distro. Apart from desktop shock you will get in Ubuntu coming from windows, it also has some controversial decisions. If you use Debian version of mint (LMDE), it is more stable than Ubuntu, which is already rock solid like pyramid of Giza (cf windows).
If you want my two cents, Mint's default Desktop Environment (Cinnamon) is far more windows-like compared to Ubuntu, and Mint includes more quality of life applications for less tech savvy people compared to Ubuntu out of the box. (Mainly graphical apps for updates, backups, disk management, etc...)
I first tried Ubuntu when I was starting my Linux journey, but it didn't really click until I used Mint. Save yourself some pain and go for Mint first :)
Edit: Also, Ubuntu contains ads for things like their "Ubuntu Pro" update service, and they're known to commit some tomfuckery when it comes to installing apps and compatibility (see Snap Controversy)
I've been around the block with linux. I'm no expert but I have used it since the 90's off and on. And I always go back to Mint. It's by far the best out of the box. Easy to set up and very intuitive. The only thing I've ever had to configure after the install, is sometimes I have to use a proprietary video driver (not hard to change). My Dell 2in1 will not go into tablet mode with the open drivers. You can test drive it from a USB stick before committing to it.
I landed on Mint after Ubuntu gave me some grief right after installing it and I wasn't in the mood to chase it around. Mint installed super easy and has given me no trouble at all. It does what I do with a computer just fine.
Ubuntu was created as supposedly the first Linux "made for people" of course there were other version of Linux trying to do that but Ubuntu also had funding, including for advertising (it was created by a billionaire Mark Shuttleworth) which helped.
Mint took Ubuntu and shaped it further to be even simpler.
I think Ubuntu tried to replicate UI of MacOS while Mint tried to look more like Windows.
I personally did not use Mint, but from the comments you can see that it has a significant following.
I used Ubuntu for some time, but stopped over decade ago as I got very frustrated that they frequently introduced instability (note that since Mint is based on Ubuntu it is not completely immune to that), though I hope that things improved and now Ubuntu is more stable.
I've found Mint to be more stable compared to my Ubuntu installations because the Mint team doesn't include the fluff and bad design decisions when making releases.
(Like never requiring snap)
I can confirm Mint, specifically with the Cinnamon Desktop environment. Although I would also recommend Debian with the Cinnamon Desktop. Ubuntu has been making some pretty weird choices ~~lately~~ for a while now. And while Mint has been trying to move it's upstream straight to Debian, they haven't done so yet.
There's Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Does that count?
Surely it does. I also have a secret dream that they will make LMDE the default Linux Mint. No sense basing Ubuntu when they are stripping away everything ubuntu
There is a rational reason for it - some types of software expect Ubuntu during their installation and usage (especially game server panels for some reason), and I'd imagine they wouldn't work properly if Mint was closer to Debian than Ubuntu.
+1 on Mint. Ubuntu is fine, but things like Ubuntu's Snaps can cause headaches that just don't exist elsewhere.
Yes indeed.
Tbf proton evolving fast as he doing, soon i won't even will need windows beside my workplace notebook
Year of the Windows 7 Desktop?!
Don't have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.
Not from Mastodon, but from looking at the map for September:
Here's a link to the rest of the map You'll have to mouse over the different countries here, but regardless of whatever the heck is happening in Singapore, windows 7 is still sitting between 15-5% in other countries across Asia. and 10 is still nowhere near the "safe" levels for EoL coming up.
This is almost certainly a sampling error.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202408-202509
Win7 grows in Singapore from <2% to 92% within two months. All other asian countries stay the same. Yeah, that's a sampling error.
It makes me a bit sad that there is a whole article on a (very likely) mirage
One caveat here: Statcounter provides no explanation for this unusual surge, so these figures should be treated with a certain amount of skepticism. Could there be a measurement error involved?*
A bot farm changed their spoofing to show Windows 7 by accident. /s. But it would be funny if that's what happened
It's 100% what happened
they’re using AI to generate system level code?
holy shit this is the dumbest way to destroy civilization
Any chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?
Absolutely zero.
Why should we hope for that? Let’s use this moment to embrace Linux instead and never look back.
lol no, VC funding line goes up