Windows 10 is the most popular OS on steam

According to Steam march survey , Micrsoft windows 10 is the most popular OS between steam users followed by OS X and linux, hmm sounds Tim sweeny’s rant and UWP news didn’t hurt its reputation so much. Intel and Nivida are also still dominant on steam , you can read more here

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I have had no problems with Windows 10 at all, I like it

Edit: Apart from the App store, they really need to sort that out, especially if they want to sell games to PC gamers through it.

That's great. Let's hope M$ will fix issues people have with it.

Well it is a free upgrade after all...................

Win 7 Pro 64 bit and Linux for me, wouldnt touch win 10 with yours.

not to mention a completely open window to EVERYTHING you do or have on your pc

Free upgrade, and it's a mostly solid OS. Still a few issues with Xbone controller support on some older games, which can be frustrating. Not sure if it's an OS issue, or just shitty driver/game support.

AMD managing to beat Intel on gpu's on a gaming platform daumn, tho I'm sporting 2 Intel "gpu's" with steam on my laptop+surface pro

I have Windows 10 and haven't had a problem yet. Not sure what people have against it and are limiting themselves by holding onto an outdated OS.

They think it's spyware, which is a problem. Yet they're the same group that own Android phones and don't think that Google isn't spying on them as well. Windows 10 is a great OS and Steamos is still behind, not to mention that Vulkan 1.0 still gets beaten by DirectX 11

I guess all that Microsoft whining was hot air, PC gamers actually love totalitarian etiquette; like a big bunch closet console gamers.

@FireEmblem_Man: at this point I really hope people are aware Google is tracking all their shit. I mean Google makes it painfully obvious. My phone automatically tracks my packages based on my emails, notifies me about changes in weather at my location, notifies me of travel times when it thinks I'm going to and from work, and even has a Google now card for my parking location.

You can get rid of most by installing cyanogenmod or other custom version os, but yes avg consumer has no idea how much tracking google actually does

Wow...Proves again that forum users are just a VERY VERY LOUD minority.

I agree, the whole "MS is spying on you" is all blown out of proportion yet doesn't think that a lot of corporations do the same, but it's all about MS working with the NSA...... They think that Valve and Gabe Newell is the savior, yet they track you with their Steam Services.

@howmakewood: I find a lot of it useful actually. I guess people are just oblivious to how it all must work. It's even obvious Google tracks things based on the targeted ads on websites, if I've been researching antibodies recently then all the ads will be about abcam

I'm using it. I quite like the OS.

I only updated recently, but it's fine. I think I still liked win 7 better, 10 has a lot of stuff I find unnecessary but I haven't had any issues with it

Ye it's no surprise when you look at Google's add revenue, they have been doing that a loooong time

What I don't get is how they could think in this day and age, them merely being connected to the internet isn't causing someone or some thing to track their every move. Every last keystroke and search term we enter on the internet is tracked for the (mostly) sole purpose of directed marketing. There is literally no way to use the internet and escape it, short of being a tin-foil hat wearing hacker who drops in on the CIA database on a weeknight for something interesting to do.

@lostrib: But that's a good thing, it reacts to the consumers tastes.

If majestic 12 wanted to track or otherwise do ill will they would.

I didn't even know people complained about 10 as far as gaming goes.

Just like the Kinect and being spied on right?

Have Win7 and wouldnt touch Win10 until i buy a new computer

Not a fan of 10 right now. I've had some issues but nothing I don't think will get resolved.

Windows 10 is the best OS they've produced in a long time. I'm not sure why it's a surprise that it's the most popular, particularly as was mentioned there was a free upgrade for a lot of people.

Windows Store sucks but Windows 10 is excellent, IMO obviously.

Ive been an insider for what it says over 2 years (though I think that stat must be broken) and Ive had no major issues. Being an insider you do get broken things, last one plugging in a xbox controller caused pc crashes hahaha, but thats what a tester signs up for. Love win10 and everything that comes with it.

Meh, I'm still using Windows 7 The Best.

At least one fewer Windows 10 user since that survey was done.

I switched back to Windows 7 after getting fed up with all the glitches associated with Windows 10. Main issues were driver support (or lack thereof) and random game crashes.

M$ tricked users to upgrade to Windows 10 with their recommended update though.

Oh there's issues with current games as well, I actually had to go back to windows 7 (re install it cause it was past the 30 days crap) cause of a conflicting error that kept on popping up in Black Desert, Blade and Soul, Far Cry Primal and Warhammer EC. It was a pretty awesome OS tell that crap happened.

Don't touch windows 10 unless you want to get ass-raped.

Windows 10 lets microsoft read your emails and personal information.

A small percentage, which still means a lot of people, are still using XP and Vista

There's nothing limiting if it functions according to all the tasks you personally need it for. Wen the operating system fails to fulfill this purpose, then it will be time for an upgrade.

I don't go by that survey I don't believe this is true at all

The thing is Windows 10 doesn't offer that much more than Windows 7 did in terms of OS features. In fact they are now playing catch up with Linux desktops for a lot of things such as DPI scaling and multi desktop support and file manager features and things just working out of the box.

And they still haven't implemented a proper software repository system where you can add links to other services to a unified software updater, it's fucking stupid that each individual piece of software has to have it's own updater unless you want to make a crappy UWP app and serve it on Microsoft's servers.

One of the main reasons when building a computer for anyone who knows nothing about computers, I don't touch Windows with a stick, being able to press update and have the entire system updated in one click is so much easier, you can even SSH in and do it for them.

Microsoft really needs to start doing worthwhile stuff with Windows, replacing NTFS with a better filesystem might be a start especially in their server OS, EXT3/4 kicks it's ass so bad it's not even funny.

They have already lost mobile through stupidity.

Windows 10 is not a bad OS, it's not a good one either, when you have to fiddle with it to stop it phoning home all the time and spending hours trying to solve problems that should not exist it's ending up being where Linux was 5 years ago.

People sticking with Windows 7 are missing out on things like DX12.

@putaspongeon:

Evidence?

@the_master_race said:

According to Steam march survey , Micrsoft windows 10 is the most popular OS between steam users followed by OS X and linux, hmm sounds Tim sweeny’s rant and UWP news didn’t hurt its reputation so much. Intel and Nivida are also still dominant on steam , you can read more here

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for starters it's free to all windows 7 and windows 8 users.

Secondly, MS had a way of not really giving you a choice but to upgrade.

I have refused flat out to upgrade because i don't like the way windows gathers user data.

Yea and huge amount of awesome games that use it...........oh wait.

It was just released. Once DX12 capable GPU's saturate the market more, more developers will integrate it.

Plus, the entire Xbone-to-PC catalogue will be unavailable to anyone not on 10. And to me, a free OS is a great way to avoid paying $350 CAD for a console I don't need.

I jumped right into it since last year and I like Windows 10 for the most parts, it ain't bad. There are a few features they could have placed in plain view, but overall, I give windows 10 a 8/10. Well, my PC had an issue but I believe it was isolated to my rig. I also had four co-workers upgrade on day one with zero issues. Still have zero issues on every PC that upgraded. Loving it so far and I'm having a blast asking Cortana silly questions.

That DX12 though.

EDIT: the sole reason why I upgraded my rig to Win10 was so I could be DX12 ready.

I've been pretty lucky with regards to newer games. No conflicts so far... Though I know my brother has had more issues than me (dunno what specifically).

Don't get ahead of yourself on DX12. Nothing uses it yet.

>yet

Win10 is fast if you disable/untick most of the useless features, for example I disabled Blue-tooth and the wireless speed went up...

Theres many things to disable you just got to dig for a bit for settings to configure... Use Google for help... Makes Win10 even more responsive.

PS: Also disabling Super-Wireless helped me.. (On Device Manager for the techies)

@mr_huggles_dog: What issues you still having?

What other OS you used? Because Android does the same thing for Google as well as iOS and Steam as well! Enough with the conspiracy theories! Also Facebook complied with the NSA as well and they're the biggest social-media site ever used!

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to."