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Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.
(www.windowscentral.com)
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
Just switched to Linux. Convinced sis in law to try linux as she was having driver issues. Wife is about to try it on our laptop. Linux has reached a point of, it just works. It can play windows games better than windows, so no reason not to.
How hard is it for laymen people to install and use it? Are there step by step instruction available?
Pretty straightforward actually, plenty of distros even ship their own USB flasher tool so that you don't have to use rufus.
Definitely step by step instructions available and even official videos now.
Getting a modern motherboard to boot to a USB key is still a royal pain in the ass.
Once the Linux live USB is up, just click install and then "next" a bunch of times.
Which distro would you recommend for gaming? I usually hear people like Mint for that.