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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
I been switching everyone to Linux, specifically Mint. It's good enough now for whatever.
Mint? Based on Ubuntu 22.04? Seems a hint dated.
No offense, I swear. But I have a buddy who has to support Mint installs for work and it honestly sounds horrible.
Then again, the ease of use is probably worth the time saved setting up Arch.
Edit: It is Pop!_OS that is based on Ubuntu 22.04 not Mint. Ubuntu spinoffs spun me through a loop.
Even if it wasn't an LTS thing, 'dated' means nothing to Linux. Stability but with security fixes is the real win. There's a hell of a lot of room in the Windows install-base for "needs an os that's not spying on them, but realistically just uses a web browser."
Dated means a fuckton in the Desktop world. Browsers get updates regularly, so do games and graphics drivers. There's nothing "stable" about a website not working correctly just because my browser version is ancient and coming from the official repo.
Thank god flatpak has made people see the light, at least a little bit.
When a distro is 'dated' and get's 'stale' updates, it's not like the browsers don't get regular updates. They're just dragging their feet on kernel revisions and DMs, testing more and moving more slowly, gaining stability. Latest Firefox is still on Debian.