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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's some serios issue with the data in india if you look over time in the past 12 months https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks to me like they were counting some windows variant as 'Other' for a time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

These issues happen a lot of times in statcounter data

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Performance-tweaked, because Microsoft is incapable of performance tweaking their own operating system

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unironically true, to tweak for performance the first thing would be to remove bloat, which you can't expect from MS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From Microsoft's perspective, the bloat is the point because that's where their profit comes from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Why remove the bloat? That’s where all the core kernel utilities live!