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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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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's a surprisingly large increase, wow. I switched back in 2017 and I've been using it ever since, but that's good to see other people are making the switch too.