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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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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

It sounds like Bazzite is the most "plug and play" version at the moment, is that right?

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

For most things, I'd agree.

Yet, I found it tricky to get Optifine working on Minecraft (Vanilla, i.e. no Forge and such) since there seems to be no way to install JRE on the system. Had to work with a distrobox container, install JRE there and run the .jar file through it. I've managed, but beginners won't find this very "plug and play".

So YMMV.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

Honestly, I don't know which distro is not plug and play with steam nowadays. I've tried Garuda, Manjaro and Linux Mint so far, no notable issue.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard lovely things about Bazzite with Steam.

However I have only run Steam on Ubuntu and Linux Mint, where it ran flawlessly.

I think the Linux Mint workflow of "click on software center", "search for steam", "click install" - is hard to beat.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that's the experience for other stuff lol.

I don't recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Bazzite has closed source software preinstalled? Yikes

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Bazzite has closed source software preinstalled? Yikes

I get the sentiment. That said, if you want to do "gaming", there's no way around proprietary software for the time being, since both titles and some drivers are and will continue to be proprietary.

Regardless, running some FOSS is already better than none. So if Bazzite helps wean people off proprietary Windows, why not?

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.

This isn't Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.