The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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Is ReactOS 64 bit yet? Ik they were working on a 64 bit version, but I haven’t heard of it being completed/working.
ReactOS 0.4.15 is also the first release to support the 64-bit x86 (amd64) CPU architecture, at least far enough to get to the desktop. However, there’s no 64-bit version available for download, presumably because ReactOS is still working on its own version of WOW64. Until that’s ready, 64-bit ReactOS can’t run 32-bit Windows software, which is currently most of the software compatible with ReactOS.
Only the latest, current version 0.4.15, released in March 2025, can run on 64-bit hardware. I guess the best you can do is run the 32-bit (labeled x86) version on 64-bit hardware in IA-32 legacy mode. So you'll be stuck running 32-bit applications and drivers with 4 GB of RAM, but it will work on hardware that isn't 25 years old. The 64-bit version they're still working on isn't useful.
 
This is called firefighting and it's usually a sign of horrific tech debt.
The state of American tech companies post-jeetification is comparable to the Library of Alexandria burning down. The scale of the damage won't be appreciate for a few years yet.
 
No clue how I've never used toolbars up to this point, but for anyone who still interfaces with the GUI a fair amount (though I use keyboard shortcuts more often nowadays) its quite nice.
W10 definitely had the best taskbar (but worst start menu) that Microsoft ever put out. Shame they completely neutered it in W11
 

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Weren't some websites reporting something similar to this last year too? I'm getting dejavu here. Where's Slav Power to fact-check this and go "ackshually, they didn't count it right and Windows 11 is gaining ground" :(
PS: It was indeed Statcounter I remembered hearing this from back in December.
It's hard to believe that a statistically significant amount of people are consciously installing Windows 10 instead of Windows 11. Most people will just use whatever a PC comes with, and that's going to be Windows 11 for new laptops/prebuilts.

High RAM prices haven't hit PC pricing that badly either:
Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026
Under these downside scenarios, PC average selling prices would likely rise, increasing by 4% to 6% in a moderate scenario, and by 6% to 8% in a pessimistic scenario.
Oh no, the $600 PC with 16 GB RAM is now $650!

If people are dipping into the used/refurbished market, they could be booting up systems with Windows 10 preinstalled (not always). But it would have to be a lot to shift usage by 4-5%.

Probably just crap stats that aren't reproducible. But it could be a sign that Windows 11 is not increasing market share very fast.
 
Oh no, the $600 PC with 16 GB RAM is now $650!
Average price would include expensive outliers where they can afford to cut into margins, as well as big vendors that have long term relationships and may have a good deal locked in.

For those not so lucky from what I understand spot prices are 4x what they used to be vs this time last year. For 16GB of (assuming) soldered on memory bought wholesale a laptop would increase ~$60 just in unit cost if they can even get it just from memory, but remember that NAND is also more expensive and costs have been spiraling for advanced chip fabrication.

The $600 laptop would be among the most impacted, you would likely see what was once going for $600 repriced to $700-$750 or maybe just cut down on features; even big OEMs wouldn't want to waste scarce resources on low margin products. Intel has some processors still being made on 10nm if you really need a cheap laptop.
 
Weren't some websites reporting something similar to this last year too? I'm getting dejavu here. Where's Slav Power to fact-check this and go "ackshually, they didn't count it right and Windows 11 is gaining ground" :(
PS: It was indeed Statcounter I remembered hearing this from back in December.
He's probably not entirely wrong. Statcounter's a site that uses pixel trackers to get its statistics. Something like that is far too variable for me to trust it as an accurate report of usage data, much less take any of the sites that keep using it as one seriously.
The best person that could tell you windows 10 vs windows 11 market share would be Microsoft itself, because every box with it on there has some form of telemetry that cannot be disabled that their servers will pick up (even the one you've slapped a billion group policies on), browser adblock or no. Too bad they'd never actually provide any of this information in good faith though, so its arguably meaningless to even consider them.
 
I just love that I need to run a resident hodgepodge of a literal fuckton of things I don't want in PowerToys to turn the goddamn "copilot" back into a control key. For fuck's sake, we need to bomb jeets.
 
W10 definitely had the best taskbar (but worst start menu) that Microsoft ever put out. Shame they completely neutered it in W11
I don't understand why the Start menu animation has to lag when you click on it for the first time.
 
unless they changed itsince i checked last you can disable each toy independently. I liked using Quick Accents
I use PowerToys to put Control where it belongs. I noticed on one VM that something kept trying to shove windows into 1/3 layout. Took far too long to figure out that I had other PowerToys stuff turned on.
 
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