December 26, 2025 - Between 3 and 3.5 billion people use Linux in 2025—including 1.5B+ Android smartphone users—making it the world's most prevalent operating system by actual

August 20, 2026 - Linux holds 100% of Top500 supercomputers and 96% of production Kubernetes clusters surveyed. Steam put Linux at 4.01% of users in July 2026.

May 29, 2026 - Linux reached 5.33% of Steam users in March 2026, its highest gaming share ever recorded. On servers, it powers 51.3% of operating system installations worldwide. On desktops, the global figure sits around 4.1% as of mid-2025, per StatCounter.

December 3, 2025 - Each year, the Linux server market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 8.6%. The world’s fastest supercomputers run on Linux, which is more than 92%. Globally, there are over 100 million active users with Linux operating systems installed ...

December 12, 2025 - Monthly data from StatCounter shows Linux share climbing from 3.72% in January 2025 to 4.27% by April 2025. Several factors contribute to this growth trajectory. The end of Windows 10 support scheduled for October 2025 has prompted many users to consider alternatives, particularly those with hardware that does not meet Windows 11 requirements.

4 days ago - The following table shows worldwide smartphone sales to end users by operating systems, as measured by Gartner, International Data Corporation (IDG) and others: The following graphic presents the marketshare shifts between 2007 and 108, based on the data tables above. Data from various sources published over the 2021/2022 period is summarized in the table below. All of these sources monitor a substantial number ...

July 19, 2026 - Linux thrives in 2024 with 48% daily users, 20k plus kernel contributors, and 96% of public cloud workloads running on it. ... In the desktop usage picture, Linux is steadily holding a 4.45% global market share in September 2024 while the share ...

September 30, 2026 - Linux accounted for 4.54% of worldwide desktop operating system usage in September 2026, against 76.36% for Windows and about 16.8% for Apple across StatCounter’s two macOS rows.

July 10, 2025 - Linux owns 1.26% of the operating system market share worldwide. Linux is the “beating heart” of all top 500 supercomputers. There are 48.07 million Linux users.

December 15, 2025 - Linux desktop market share stands at 4.7% globally as of 2025, up from 2.76% in 2022. The United States recorded 5.03% Linux desktop market share in June 2025. Steam Survey reported 3.05% Linux users among gamers in October 2025.

February 17, 2024 - Latest Linux statistics show that 2.68% of desktop PCs and laptops worldwide run on this platform. The number of Linux users sits at over 32.8 million, in addition to 1.6 billion Android users.

July 23, 2025 - Around 80% of cloud infrastructure ... share, representing over 2.5 billion active devices. On the desktop front, Linux maintains a loyal base with over 40 million users worldwide, ......

Out of 25 top websites in the world, only two aren’t powered by Linux. (ZDNet) There are over 600 Linux distros available. (Tecmint) The US boasts the most significant number of Ubuntu users.

December 22, 2022 - There are 1,371,771 Desktop Linux users that actively play games using Steam. There are between 33.57 Million and 39.17 Million Desktop or Laptop PCs, with Linux installed, in active usage. World wide.

January 18, 2019 - Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the numbers. There are over 250 million PCs sold every year. Of all the PCs connected to the internet, NetMarketShare reports 1.84 percent were running Linux.

April 13, 2022 - Twenty years later, network statistics for Linux seem to be telling us that Torvalds succeeded: Linux is the world’s most popular open-source OS, with 15,000 people actively participating in the platform’s development.

September 9, 2025 - Furthermore, the global ranking ... websites), and 39.2% (overall websites). ... As of June 2025, the total number of visits to linux.com was approximately 164.6K, representing a 5.82% increase from May....

3 weeks ago - Android, which runs the Linux kernel is the world's most popular mobile platform. As of September 2024, Android has 71.85% of the global mobile operating system market. Although based on the Linux kernel, Android has very little in common with the conventional desktop Linux software stack predominant in most Linux systems. This is mostly evident in Android not using GNU tools but instead Toybox as the userland...

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