Windows 11 is within striking distance of Windows 10 for PC gaming dominance

[Windows Central]

The latest figures from Steam show that less than half of Steam users are on Windows 10. The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to shrink, and the latter is posed to be used by the majority of Steam users within a few months.

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[The Werewolf]

Despite those factors, PC gamers still use Windows 11 at a higher rate than Windows 10.

What exactly does "use at a higher rate" mean here? By your own numbers, Win 10 is still around 49.4% while Win 11 is at 46.6%. Also since Win 11 is still only 30% of the market, there clearly is some other factor causing this than just 'preference' (ie: new machine turnover causing Win 11 installs to increase).

As well, kinda have to explain the notion of "statistical error" and "sampling error" here. A change of 0.5% over one month falls well within statistical error, especially given how these use statistics are collected. A more meaningful analysis would have been to show Win 10 and Win 11 use rates over time on a graph and see what the trend lines look like.

Win 11 will increase if for no other reason than "people buy upgrades to their hardware and new hardware" - that was kind of one of the reasons for the hardware restrictions (and now the attempt to switch to ARM) - to get people buying new hardware, but that doesn't mean people are happy about it.

 

[NoLifeDGenerate]

Never plan to run either. Been running linux for 10+years. Win7 before that. I never liked the stranglehold MS had on PC gaming with DirectX and using DirectX to force people into new versions of Windows.