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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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[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

How hard is it for laymen people to install and use it? Are there step by step instruction available?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Getting a modern motherboard to boot to a USB key is still a royal pain in the ass.

Pro tip: if you have the luxury of a spare hard drive, use it. Pull the old windows drive out entirely and set it aside to pull backups from later.

Once the Linux live USB is up, just click install and then "next" a bunch of times.

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