A plug for Windoze 7.
Windows 7 in business is around 4.7%, beating both Win11 and WinXP by a substantial margin, but still vastly less than Win10.
I was an IT director for nearly twenty years, and told everyone that the day I have to upgrade the company’s computers to Windows 10 is the day I will retire. I tried my best to convert the company to Linux, but there was some proprietary Windows software we had to use that prevented it. I did run Linux on a number of servers though.
When I retired they were still on Windows 7.
I oversaw upgrades from Windows for Workgroups 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows NT 3.1 through 4.0 (we skipped over 98, 2000, and ME by using NT, and we skipped over Windows Vista)
Windows 7 was hands down the best. Period.
Windows 8 was a non-starter. I almost upgraded us to Windows 10 based on the preliminary evaluation version, which I ran on my own desktop as a production computer until the day that the Start Menu disappeared. I have reevaluated Win 10 periodically since then and it never was acceptable to me.
My wife has Win 11 on her laptop and I have no clue how to do anything on it.