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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

could have something to do with the odd, and massive, influx of new win10 users?

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Given the roughly similarly sized drop in Win11 users. I chose to believe that the Win10 jump is from people nopeing out of the Win11 slop.