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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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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ehh, I've had a few problems with it, from the installation wizard crashing, to my wifi drivers disabling on system resume, to it completely freezing when I switch language input, to sometimes crashing when I load a web page. I'd try a different distro than risk the instability.

E: And before someone chimes in saying it's my laptop, I will say I had none of these problems using Windows, other than it was very slow.

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think sometimes there are hits and misses when installing a distro. Could not get Mint to boot after installing it so I ended up installing Debian - where Mint should be easier to get going, Debian did it perfectly fine for me.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, definitely! I got my eyes on PopOS but I have a feeling I'll need an afternoon to do it

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 2 points 15 hours ago

Sometimes the pain is worth the gain :D Just not so many free afternoons for me in the next while, otherwise I would be trying Arch ... but for now I will be using set it and forget it Debian.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's your laptop.

Hah, but no seriously. It's just always kind of a shot in the dark which distro is the best for your computer. Mint has been best for my laptop, but really did not get it even installing on the desktop. Manjaro or Tumbleweed worked on it.