[boca_honey]

>when was the last time you knew someone that went out and bought a Windows-based computer for anything other than gaming?

I'm sorry, what? I don't know if this is because of the developer-bubble mindset on HN (or the wealth gap that comes with that), but Windows adoption on the consumer level is around 70% and close to 90% on the business level. This actually falls short from what I see anecdotically (I don't live in any North-American / European country), which is close to 95% of Windows adoption, in general.

[TheRealDunkirk]

I'm sorry, but what!? Right back atcha. If you'd have bothered to have looked at the chart in link I posted, you'd have seen that market share of "consumer compute" for Windows was 26% as of 10 years ago. You're going to have to do a lot better anecdata to find a 44% resurgence over the last 10 years, especially given the dismal things that have happened to it as a platform over that time.

[boca_honey]

Your 26% figure refers to the Total Consumer Compute Market 14 years ago (not 10, it's now 30% btw)... but that includes smartphones and tablets, not just PCs.

You specifically mentioned

> when was the last time you knew someone that went out and bought a Windows-based computer for anything other than gaming?

So, lets talk about that:

https://safeitexperts.com/en/2025-desktop-operating-system-m...

You are being deliberately opaque, but this is HN and your jerry-rigged data won't fly without scrutiny.