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My favourite brand was Sony up until around 2016 when they started to go hard on censoring stuff. They thought me that brand loyalty and fanboyism will make you easy to exploit.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. Then later in the 1990 I bought a PC clone built from a local puter builder called BetaComp. Then in the 2000s i built my own AMD system.Now I own a Gateway laptop and HP desktop.
I cant believe that Amiga is only 1% in 1989, maybe this is based on the US only but not in Europe or rest of the world, the Amiga was very popular between 1988-1991, this is defiantly not accurate.
As soon as I knew about Chrome, I used that instead of IE. Now, I have a mixture: Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera (specifically Opera GX), Edge, Epic and Tor. The latter two have built in proxies or VPNs.
By the way, for me it was: Windows 95 -> Windows ME -> Windows XP -> Windows 7 -> Windows 8 (and 8.1) (for parents) -> Windows 10 (both me and parents, upgraded parents from 8.1). Not touching 11 with a barge pole.
Crazy to think that in the last 10 years or so, there are still a load of really old (now collectable!) PCs that are still using MS-DOS. Also note that XP is still sticking around (due to program compatibility, with certain programs flat out refusing to work with anything newer) and so is 7 (for the same reason as XP). Also note how 7 and 8 lost ground to 10 towards the end of support for 7 (and 8/8.1) due to the free upgrade to 10 (which sadly no longer works). Also note that, due to the insane system requirements of a fixed 8th gen Intel or 2nd gen AMD Ryzen CPU, the vast majority of Windows 10 computers are NOT upgrading to 11, so I don't see how 11 can overtake 10. In fact, I expect Linux to overtake 10 when 10 goes out of support, not 11.
we all know Chrome got on very quickly due to the installers that come with the malware Chrome, especially those when you uninstall it, it comes back the next day
Google leveraged their massive advertising empire to sucker people into installing Chrome. Next, they made Chrome the default browser on Android, during the era when mobile devices were taking over desktop computers. They were lucky. The only good thing I have to say about Chrome is that it has vastly improved since the early days. Still feel sorry for anybody who still uses Chrome.
