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> PC gaming is one of the few places left that Windows has any relevance

While it's true that Windows may face challenges in some areas, claiming it has become irrelevant outside of PC gaming feels like an exaggeration. Here are some recent statistics from Wikipedia [1] to put things into perspective:

Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics

Windows 72.17%

macOS 15.42%

Unknown 6.1%

Linux (excluding ChromeOS) 4.03%

ChromeOS 2.27%

FreeBSD 0.01%

Other 0.01%

Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter as of February 2024. ChromeOS is also based on the Linux kernel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

Quite a lot of methodological caveats being noted in that section...a couple of questions I would ask are how much computing is done inside a browser now, making the platform irrelevant, and how much is done on a mobile device rather than a desktop. Anecdotally, I see a lot of them collecting dust in the houses of friends & family, and very little being done outside of Zoom and Chrome.

My firefox sets user agent to windows