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Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. (www.windowscentral.com)
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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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[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I won't update my perfectly usable computer just because microslop refuses to support it.

[–] coredev@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

The thing is, (as you already know but this is for people that have not yet taking the plunge), Linux today is so unbelievable good. It's both snappy and good looking. A 5 year old computer feels like new. There might be a little tinkering, but you know that might be a quite fun experience and your computer feels like new again.

I run Debian for my tv PC, steam link with bt controller - shit just works and it's so fast.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 minutes ago

I've been dailying linux since 2010 and it's gotten way easier. stuff that didn't work just does now. remember printer and wi-fi driver hell? now it works worse on windows if anything. games and some proprietary software are the only anchors, and that's kinda going away slowly

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

I still can't convince my dad to just switch, but at this point running Windows is in nearly every single way worse than just running a popular Linux distro.