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’ve been dual-booting for years. Made a big push to get the software I typically use on Windows to run on Ubuntu. Haven’t touched Windows in about a month and it’s wonderful. Haven’t got gaming nailed down yet, going to try Bazzite on my desktop. Some of my more graphics-intensive games don’t run well on Ubuntu. Pretty sure my desktop is compatible with Windows 11, I’ll upgrade at some point but I still plan to only use it when it’s necessary. Unfortunately it is necessary for me sometimes. I’ll probably start making preparations soon switch to Win 11 and be prepared for that to fuck my Ubuntu partition, so that’s probably when I’ll install Bazzite as well. My old Lenovo tank is already Linux-only.
It’s sad to say while it was the default choice for a while, it seems like a lot of people are avoiding Ubuntu now.
Gaming is awesome on CachyOS; it’s very possible much of the better capabilities there can be installed on Ubuntu, but I don’t know how hard that is. I imagine most games would perform similarly by default.