>>971763
>They're not going to develop a software for such a tiny minority of users
Anon, let's put this into perspective. According to the website "StatCounter", which is a websites that as tracking code "
installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally":
https://archive.ph/kN6Zh#methodology
Here is the percentage of desktop users and their OS of choice:
https://archive.ph/yFrcE
<OSX: 14.7 %
<Unknown: 5.34%
<Linux: 3.88%
<Chromes OS: 2.56%
<FreeBSD: 0.01%
Now,
all versions of Windows takes up 73.5% of that marketplace. But when you actually break down the numbers, the percentage of W7 users out of all Windows users is 2.81%:
https://archive.ph/ZlqCH
Putting that in perspective, of
all operating systems combined, that means that W7 takes up 2.06535% of the market, just behind Chrome OS. Now, while that does seem like a "small" numbers, let's actually look at how many people are using Windows. According to leaked documents back in October, W11 takes up a market share of 400 million users:
https://archive.ph/1gvnm
Using the population statistics of StatCounter back in October, W11 was 26.7% of the total Windows market. Which means the
total number of Windows users is about
1.498 billion. Taking this further, the total number of desktop OS users is
2.219 billion. Now, what does that look like in regards to actual users.
<OSX: 326 million
<Unknown: 118 million
<Linux: 86 million
<Chromes OS: 50 million
<Windows 7: 45 million
<FreeBSD: 222 thousand
Now while that is a larger number than you're probably aware, that
STILL may seem "small" in comparison to other OS
but I am not done. According to statistics and surveys taken from Steam and Stack Overflow, the percentage of Linux users using the specific distro “Ubuntu” take up around 27% of users:
https://archive.ph/rynEC
Meaning, of Linux's 86 million users (3.88% of the total market),
less than 24 million use Ubuntu (1.0476% of the total market). Now why am I singling out Ubuntu? Because if you look on the GPT4All website, you will see that
they have a dedicated installer JUST for Ubuntu users:
https://archive.ph/QOnLL#selection-127.0-127.16
So breaking this down, W7 is still in use by 45 million users, is easy enough to develop for (
With the only reason it "doesn't work" is because of developers purposely breaking their software), and is still receiving
official security updates as of this year:
https://archive.ph/0XqK9
But it's an operating system with "
a tiny minority of users" and developers shouldn't develop for it because of that,
MEANWHILE a dedicated Linux-distro with almost
HALF the population of W7 users gets their own special version of software and catered to at every whim?
Does that make sense
at all?