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  • Re: "Microsoft itself accidentally proves Windows 11 minimum system requirements make no sense"

    From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Fri Jul 24 15:09:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 7/18/26 9:08 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:31:13 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    I say "desperate and last ditch" because Windows is tanking. As of
    June Windows is down to 53% of desktop share in the U.S. Macs are
    now 30% and Linux/Chrome is now around 16%.

    But on the other hand, the US is accounting for less and less of the computing market.

    But a lot of desktop computing has moved to portable devices. Including
    iOS and Android Statscounter shows:

    Windows 33%
    iOS 24%
    Android 17%
    OSX + MacOS 18%
    Linux 4%
    Other 4%
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  • From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Fri Jul 24 15:11:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 7/19/26 2:47 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid>wrote:
    On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:31:13 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    I say "desperate and last ditch" because Windows is tanking. As of
    June Windows is down to 53% of desktop share in the U.S. Macs are
    now 30% and Linux/Chrome is now around 16%.

    But on the other hand, the US is accounting for less and less of the
    computing market.

    I am posting this from a Raspberry Pi4 8 GB running Linux.
    Did cost 40 US dollars or so?
    I do have a Toshiba 8 TB USB drive connected to it,
    via a Sitecom 8 channel USB hub, some RTL_SDR USB RF receivers,
    audio video.. POE ethernet stuff, Huawei 4G USB modem for internet access, Not doing much gaming, but a lot of C programming on it.

    I do have double glass windows though.


    That is no amazing unless you can run my software I use every day.


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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sat Jul 25 02:03:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:09:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:

    On 7/18/26 9:08 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:31:13 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    I say "desperate and last ditch" because Windows is tanking. As of
    June Windows is down to 53% of desktop share in the U.S. Macs are
    now 30% and Linux/Chrome is now around 16%.

    But on the other hand, the US is accounting for less and less of
    the computing market.

    But a lot of desktop computing has moved to portable devices.
    Including iOS and Android Statscounter shows:

    Windows 33%
    iOS 24%
    Android 17%
    OSX + MacOS 18%
    Linux 4%
    Other 4%

    Statcounter? Really??

    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-usage-is-surging-not-so-fast-heres-the-real-story/>
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  • From Jan Panteltje@alien@comet.invalid to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sat Jul 25 07:28:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>wrote:
    On 7/19/26 2:47 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid>wrote:
    On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:31:13 +0000, Nick Charles wrote:

    I say "desperate and last ditch" because Windows is tanking. As of
    June Windows is down to 53% of desktop share in the U.S. Macs are
    now 30% and Linux/Chrome is now around 16%.

    But on the other hand, the US is accounting for less and less of the
    computing market.

    I am posting this from a Raspberry Pi4 8 GB running Linux.
    Did cost 40 US dollars or so?
    I do have a Toshiba 8 TB USB drive connected to it,
    via a Sitecom 8 channel USB hub, some RTL_SDR USB RF receivers,
    audio video.. POE ethernet stuff, Huawei 4G USB modem for internet access, >> Not doing much gaming, but a lot of C programming on it.

    I do have double glass windows though.


    That is no amazing unless you can run my software I use every day.

    What software is that?
    What does / can it do?
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