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HP admits 30% of PCs still run Windows 10, rejecting Windows 11, and it's why Microsoft caved on support
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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If they'd just kept the old Windows 10 taskbar/launcher the could've pushed it out as a forced update and very few people would've complained. Yes there'd be a few tech geeks freaking out, but the majority of users' main complaint is GUI workflow. Leave that as-is and it's an easy win.
What sold my partner on Mint was the fact that my computer's UI has basically remained unchanged for 20 years. She was pretty sick of Windows always screwing with workflows.
I gave Mint a shot and while its hardware support was the best (least Nvidia pain of any distro) the whole thing just felt so single-threaded. It was just too easy to lock up the UI. Maybe I was playing with bad plug-ins though, but they were official ones.
Then again, I managed to crash KDE Plasma by installing the vertical clock plugin.
I don't think I use any plugins and I never have the UI lock up, contrary to Windows 11, where it happens all the time.
I don’t use anything special, but with 3 monitors I’ve noticed that I can freeze the GUI by opening too many things at once
Like if I open discord, YouTube, and spin up a hypervisor at the same time it’ll occasionally freeze the screen but audio is still going
Are you using NVIDIA or AMD? In the past I had problems with trying to get NVIDIA cards working with Linux and encountered problems like freezing too, but been fine with AMD.
AMD card
Intel cpu
The real trick would have been to make WIndows 11 better than Windows 10. Then people would actually voluntarily upgrade to the better system.
There's always gonna be some people who don't want the new version.
https://xkcd.com/1172/
You're not wrong, but this isn't a problem of some obscure person wanting keyboard heating. Windows 11 is objectively worse than 10 was in nearly every way. It's why people haven't adopted it.
I honestly think that projects there are so large and disconnected already and now they are shoving AI to solve problems and firing people... It's a mess .. windows is at 77 percent or so useage today. I'm grabbing my popcorn and watching the youth with Bazzite and Steam anything . Think the writing is on the wall.
The corporate culture at MS right now is beyond my comprehension ... I mean they were always straight up predatory and anti competitive but this new face of it is purely evil.