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



Getting a modern motherboard to boot to a USB key is still a royal pain in the ass.
(Edit: I forget that windows ships full disk encrypted now. Be sure to get your backups off of the Windows drive first!)
Once the Linux live USB is up, just click install and then “next” a bunch of times.