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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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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 week ago

Its the first time my peers are actually asking me about switching to linux. Sweden is an extremely techbro country, which i say because they have all the newest gadgets and then cant open a file for fucks sake.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Windows 11 market share went from 55% on October 2025 to 62% on January 2026. That's an increase of 7 percentage units, not a drop of 5 percentage units.

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[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I been switching everyone to Linux, specifically Mint. It's good enough now for whatever.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I switched my parents to Linux more than 10 years ago. They are very happy with it.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I switched to linux at the end of last year too! I am part of that increase and i like it.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago

Brand new windows measurably losing ground to it's prior unsupported edition and Linux is fucking wild.

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

glad I switched to Linux, Microslop's current state is a disaster. yes it randomly implodes sometimes, mainly by my fault, but at least I can rollback! no more headache of forced updates.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure it has nothing to do with forcefeeding AI or copying the user's screen content.

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[–] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please Stop using statcounter as a reliable source. Their numbers are absolutely wack.

Look at the recent surge in win7 pcs, that no economical data can back up, if you look at win7 stats of some countries you will find some weird spikes that died out this last month. why go from an os that has lost security updates to an older os that today's software can't run on anymore

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

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

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

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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

Linux Mint for desktop. Bazzite for handheld.

Bye Microsoft

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Statcounter data has a lot of shortterm noise. Longterm trends are meaningful, but do not get too excited about short term fluctuations.

At the same time Windows has been slowly losing market share over the years.

[–] MrRandom@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

This is Internet Explorer all over again

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Really hope windows market share has peaked and it's all downhill from here. Totally done with their BS.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

Alternative headline: Linux market share increased by 30% from november to january!

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 1 week ago

They're approaching the trust thermocline, where the pain of leaving is smaller than the pain of staying.

[–] Aknifeguy@piefed.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Ditched windows 10 for ubuntu when end of life was announced and haven't looked back.

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