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According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

Many are rollback to Windows 10, but Linux is increasing as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

buddy who has to support Mint installs for work

The "work" part is probably why you have such a bad view of Mint. It could be any OS, but at work there would be a horror story every day (because theres a lot of people, most cant use computers, etc).

The ease of use and not having it break randomly is why you don't use Arch for normal people who just need to get stuff done.

[–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually I want to delete my comment... 22.04 is actually Pop!_OS not Mint. So I'm really dumb there, admittedly, Ubuntu spinoffs get me a little mixed up.

And the work bit, in truth, I think he could fix it by using a btrfs partition, snapper, and grub-btrfs. Build the machine to automatically take snapshots so if someone breaks it, you can fix it faster.

And yeah, ease of use is important, that was not meant as a criticism instead I pointed out a logical reason why Mint made sense.

Long story short, comment stupid, my bad.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mint has snapshots available out of the box even with ext4, the welcome screen prompts you to create a snapshot to fallback to if anything goes wrong.

[–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Interesting, I would love to understand the tooling behind that.