Windows market share in Germany drops to 69.78%, down nearly 10 points in a year 📉

Meanwhile, macOS rises to 19.59%, driven by user demand for privacy & seamless integration 🍏

Linux more than doubles to 5.49%, reflecting growing interest in open-source, secure, and flexible systems 🐧

#Linux#Desktop#FOSS#Privacy#Security#OpenSource#Microsoft#Windows#TechNews#CyberSecurity#UserFreedom#Freedom#Tech#Technology#AI#OS#MacOS

Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

#os #linux #bsd #macos #windows #dos #freedos #amiga #plan9#Solaris #aix #pdp11 #retrocomputing #os2 #qemu #haikuos

Concernant la fin du support #Windows 10
Rappel que la carte https://aidelinux.gogocarto.fr/map#/carte/@46.49,2.29,5z?cat=all répertorie des individus ou associations qui se portent volontaires pour aider à la migration sous #Linux. N'hésitez pas à y rediriger vos connaissances qui pourraient être intéressées !
#endof10 #migrate2linux

Microsoft release preview of a new Link to Windows app for Android. It lets you do more from your phone including locking your PC, sending files to your PC, and mirroring your phone screen to a PC, as well as viewing PC status info. #Android#Windows #LinkToWindows#Microsofthttps://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/07/24/previewing-a-refreshed-link-to-windows-experience-for-android-phones/

🪟 #Windows
Comment recycler cette foutue touche "Windows" (ou "CoPilot") pour en faire quelquechose d'utile. 😄
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/useless_keys_windows/

If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/windows_11_productivity_sink/ via @theregister #Windows

I'm always reminded of how much I miss #BSD and #Linux when I boot my #Windows 11 install for some gaming...
Microsoft seems to think that memory and cpu power grows on trees.

No bashing here, just crazy how heavyweight there OS has become over the years (Not even starting with AD's and backdoors etc.)

Guess I still live in the XP/98 days - resource wise.

It feels/behaves sluggish.
Quite different to my #Debian#KDE install - where everything is snappy.

Well, it is only for gaming anymore.

Stamattina ho dovuto ripristinare il PC.
Mi ero completamente dimenticato di quanto sia enshittificata la configurazione iniziale di #Windows (accesso obbligatorio con l'account, raccolta pervasiva di dati di diagnostica, proposte di abbonamento ovunque). È tremendo, e come al solito il mio pensiero va a chi non ha le competenze minime per districarsi in questo labirinto di bloatware.
Non comprerò mai più hardware Microsoft in vita mia, piuttosto vado di Mac usato.

Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴

#Norway#Linux#MarketShare#Windows#OSX#MacOS#ChromeOS

Here's another one for the #blind#hiveMind primarily, but feel free to chime in if you have a good idea.
For an upcoming video/stream, I am looking into video editing as a #screenReader user. I'd like to cover both #mac and #windows and am curious what solutions have worked well for people in the past.
Conditions are no mouse usage at all, app needs to be screenreader-compatible, ideally somewhat full-featured both for #audio and #video.
Be it #iMovie, #Clipchamp, #quicktime, #reaper, a dreaded #AI tool, tell me thy success stories, thy struggles and thy findings! 😊 #accessibility

Windows 11 has officially overtaken Windows 10’s market share at 50.24%, driven by Microsoft’s push to migrate users ahead of Windows 10’s end of support in October 📈

Meanwhile, Linux in Europe is surging—up 83% in a year—as many users seek open-source alternatives over forced Windows 11 upgrades 🐧

This highlights growing user demand for choice and freedom ⚖️

https://blazetrends.com/unprecedented-linux-growth-in-europe-amid-windows-10-end-of-life/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/windows_11_market_share/

#Microsoft#Windows#Windows11#Windows10#Linux#OpenSource#TechTrends#Freedom

For all its faults, copy-and-paste is still a pretty neat feature.

I just copied a funny picture I saw in my Mastodon feed and pasted it into a Gajim chat, and it worked, just like that.

To someone who'd been using a single-tasking computer like an IBM PC or Commodore 64 or something, moving an object from one app to another unrelated app like that must've been mind-blowing when it first appeared.

Who had it first, by the way? #MacOS via MultiFinder? #Amiga? #Windows?

#retrocomputing