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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

despite

Misspelled "Because"

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Switched to CachyOS in December, so I guess I'm part of that statistic.

I was also part of the December Steam Hardware Survey statistic, but that was before I switched. So the December survey has an artificially inflated Windows statistic by at least 1 user.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Convicted monopoly.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's an article about Microslop, and therefore, a good place to mention that if you're stuck using Windows for whatever reason, O&O ShutUp will help you turn off its invasive features and delete Copilot.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I am done with Windows at home. I spent a whole weekend convincing my computer that it was allowed to install windows 11, going into my BIOS and changing settings, having to make a live USB drive with some windows setup tool, navigating numerous outright wrong guides on Windows' on website, and at the end of it, I was greeted with the worst OS I have ever used in my life. I had thought complaints about Win11 were exaggerated like complaints about Vista back in the day- Vista was bad, but usable. Windows 11 is legitimately awful. Everything runs like shit on it. That day I resolved to switch to Linux for everything I could and started dual booting. Was the Linux install process difficult and complicated? Yes, but compared to what I had to do to get my computer to run Win11 it was a piece of cake.

What's worse? Thanks to advancements in Wine and Proton, Windows software runs better on Linux now than it did on Windows 11. I have games that ran fine on Windows 10 that run like shit on Win11, and run fine on Linux. Sure, I am a technical person and I am very comfortable with the command line, but legitimately nothing I've had to do with Linux has been as frustrating as what I have to do to try to get Windows 11 to do anything right. I thought I'd be dual booting into Windows at least some to run some programs but I legitimately haven't found anything that doesn't run fine on Linux. Plus Linux doesn't spy on my and sell my data, and Linux isn't owned by a pedophile who hung out with the Epstein gang.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So I've always counted unknown as linux because who else would care / know how to hide their os ao that would put Linux at what %20?

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[–] Scrunge@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That seems so strange. Why would that happen so late?

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