Linux Market Share
Real-time Linux desktop usage statistics across distributions
NetMarketShare tracks Linux market share on the desktop worldwide using real human visitor data, with bots and fraudulent traffic filtered out so the numbers reflect actual users running Linux on their personal computers — not the well-known noise from datacenter Linux servers.
What is Linux market share?
Linux market share — sometimes called Linux usage share or desktop Linux statistics — is the percentage of web traffic generated by computers running a Linux-based operating system within a given time period. It is the most-cited measure of Linux's footprint on the consumer desktop, separate from its much larger share of servers and cloud workloads.
Linux distributions we track
- Ubuntu — the most widely used desktop Linux distribution
- Fedora — the upstream community distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Debian — the long-running upstream for Ubuntu and many derivatives
- Linux Mint — a popular Ubuntu-based desktop distribution
- Arch Linux and Manjaro — rolling-release distributions
- openSUSE, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS and other major distributions
Why Linux desktop share is hard to measure
Linux dominates servers, cloud, and embedded devices, but its share of the consumer desktop is much smaller. NetMarketShare filters out datacenter and bot traffic specifically so the reported number reflects actual humans using Linux on their personal machines — not curl requests or automated scrapers running on Linux servers.
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How is Linux market share measured?
NetMarketShare measures Linux usage from real visitor sessions across our partner network, filtering out bot traffic, datacenter traffic, and other non-human sources. The result is Linux desktop statistics that reflect actual end-user adoption, not server-side noise.
Read about our methodology ·
How we detect and remove invalid traffic
