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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ah a windows 8. I remember reading the promo materials for it. An OS designed around touch, with the goal of doubling the number of touch enabled PCs on the market.

Guess how many PCs were touch-enabled when windows 8 launched...

1.5%. Whomever is driving at Microsoft needs to be moved to an Amish community and prevented from interacting with any kind of electrical device ever again.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Articles for 2013 are still available? It was ~10% for all laptops launched in 2013.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/451973/touchscreen-notebooks-snag-10-percent-of-the-laptop-market-report-claims.html

In 2023 The penetration is ~20% so by these metrics they did double the number of touch enabled PCs. It just took a decade too long.

In fact in 2012 - Intel did a study that said 80% of users prefer a touch screen. https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-80-percent-of-pc-users-prefer-touch-screens/

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Windows 8 came out in 2012, and was in development years before that.

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012

Laptops is a subset of PCs. Only 10% of laptops were touch, not 10% of computers.

80% of users are dumb. A touchscreen laptop is an expesnive way to get your screen dirty.