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Windows 10 Drops a Bit in Favor for Windows 7 on Steam
It might be a little, very little even but something interesting can be spotted in the Steam user surveys. The number of Windows 10 installs are on the decline, and Windows 7 seems to be rising.
According and as spotted by neowin, this decline is mostly found in the 64-bit version of the OS rather than the 32-bit iteration.
Interesting finds are these:
- Windows 7's user base climbs to 36.99%, which is an increase of 0.85 percentage points. Yet all other versions of Windows lost some of their user base market share.
- Microsoft is still the big daddy iN OSes though, 96.12% of surveyed Steam users makes use of some sort of Windows. However, Apple's OS X/macOS grew to 3.11% and Linux progressed to 0.74%.
- Most users have 8GB of system RAM and their display resolution for primary displays remains to sit level at 1920x1080 and 3840x1080 for surround view respectively.
These surveys are optional though, so the validity remains a little iffy. Then again, there is no PC Gaming user-pool bigger than Steam.
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#5458430 Posted on: 08/02/2017 06:33 PM
So when we will start support opensourced systems like ReactOS? We could create better, faster Windows 7 alternative what will support all modern or old hardware, all new and old aplication, and noone will force you to use it or use only apps from it store.
So when we will start support opensourced systems like ReactOS? We could create better, faster Windows 7 alternative what will support all modern or old hardware, all new and old aplication, and noone will force you to use it or use only apps from it store.
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#5458431 Posted on: 08/02/2017 06:41 PM
Though that would be nice, ReactOS will likely never get completed. Despite trying to be a Windows clone, it is less capable of running Windows software than Wine, which is saying a lot (especially when you consider how much of it is based on Wine). Since companies like Valve are aware of this, the next best thing is to use Linux, which is looking better and better for gamers every month. It wouldn't surprise me if by the end of 2018, it will be on-par with Windows in terms of performance and GPU features. Things like Crossfire or hardware Physx still won't exist, but for the most part it will be fully ready to play games, and there are features Linux has that Windows doesn't.
As much as I dislike Windows, it is plenty fast and its backward compatibility is usually good enough (assuming you have a version that supports it). In most cases if you have hardware too old for Windows 7, you don't want to be using it anyway.
So when we will start support opensourced systems like ReactOS? We could create better, faster Windows 7 alternative what will support all modern or old hardware, all new and old aplication, and noone will force you to use it or use only apps from it store.
Though that would be nice, ReactOS will likely never get completed. Despite trying to be a Windows clone, it is less capable of running Windows software than Wine, which is saying a lot (especially when you consider how much of it is based on Wine). Since companies like Valve are aware of this, the next best thing is to use Linux, which is looking better and better for gamers every month. It wouldn't surprise me if by the end of 2018, it will be on-par with Windows in terms of performance and GPU features. Things like Crossfire or hardware Physx still won't exist, but for the most part it will be fully ready to play games, and there are features Linux has that Windows doesn't.
As much as I dislike Windows, it is plenty fast and its backward compatibility is usually good enough (assuming you have a version that supports it). In most cases if you have hardware too old for Windows 7, you don't want to be using it anyway.
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#5458432 Posted on: 08/02/2017 06:42 PM
I'd love to know the composition of those win10 installs - how many of them are on the latest version.
I'd love to know the composition of those win10 installs - how many of them are on the latest version.
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#5458434 Posted on: 08/02/2017 06:42 PM
I think React would need corporate backing or a serious migration from Linux to start progressing enough to compete against Windows.
So when we will start support opensourced systems like ReactOS? We could create better, faster Windows 7 alternative what will support all modern or old hardware, all new and old aplication, and noone will force you to use it or use only apps from it store.
I think React would need corporate backing or a serious migration from Linux to start progressing enough to compete against Windows.
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It's not just the survey being optional that's iffy, but a few other things such as:
* To my knowledge, it only prompts you whenever you log in. If you just leave your PC on 24/7, I don't think it will ask you.
* It doesn't ask everyone, but rather people at random. This, along with the first point, can be skewed a lot depending how frequent of a gamer you are. If you are someone who logs in once a month and get the survey, I'd argue you're skewing the results compared to someone who logs in daily and didn't get the survey.
* People who dual-boot. On my gaming PC, I spend 80% of my time in Linux, but there were times where I happened to log into Windows and only then did I get the survey.
* Similarly, there are people who run Steam on multiple PCs, where maybe their crappy laptop for casual gaming gets the survey but their dedicated gaming PC doesn't.
* Some people run the Windows version of Steam on Mac or Linux.
When you account for tens of thousands of data points, I suppose some of these stats may even out, but it does get me to wonder how different things may really be.
I think what Steam should do is advertise a known day when it collects survey data and have people tick a box saying "I want to participate in all surveys", where you aren't prompted; it just collects the data automatically.