In Finland, Linux market share has jumped from 4% to 24% within the last 6 months.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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That must be a mistake. Are there any Finish people on Lemmy? I'd like to know if they are observing this on the ground, because honestly, if every 4th person had Linux there it would be somewhat visible. Even non-techies in the family or friend circle would mention it or ask about switching to it, or there would be a popular store to buy stuff with linux pre-installed.
I'm obviously limited to my own bubble, but my friends / aquintances consist mostly of "tech aware" people and they have been getting cozy with Fedora and Linux Mint due to the BuyFromEU/BuyFromEurope movement.
I know from a few schools that they use ChromeBooks since corona pandemic (they were handing them to kids so everyone could equally attend remotely) and they just kept using them since they had them when they returned to classrooms. I don't know how widespread this is and don't know if chromebooks count towards linux desktop stats?
There seems to be some debate on whether we are counting Chromebooks as Linux.
the debate basically comes down to "technically linux" (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and "spiritually linux" (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it). i think if we're talking the latter chromeos belongs less than windows does. however for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask
for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask
I would put ChromeOS in it's own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.
Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS
the debate basically comes down to “technically linux” (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and “spiritually linux” (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it).
This is why Stallman tried to insist on "GNU/". As usual, he was right.
Another finn chiming in, linux user for about 1.5 years. Another friend of mine started dual booting recently. Wouldn't say it's common to use Linux at all.
Sopuli.xyz is run from Finland, so probably yes.
Yeah that stat is almost certainly a measurement artifact - these browser-based surveys only track user-agent strings which can be spoofed, and some Finnish university or government network probably changed their default config or started running a massive scraper project lol.
That seems highly unlikely to me. Could a reason be website scrapers for AI using different user agents to prevent being blocked? The recent reports of different projects plagued by scrapers fit the timeline
Wow! What caused that? Orange man?
I have no idea, but it does match the Orange timeline.
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Wow, that’s crazy. Any particular reason for that?
Love for penguins
Linux has finally surpassed the "Unknown" category in the USA!
Got a chuckle out of me! Excellent work.
One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.
Look at the computer to your left. Now look at the computer to your right. Now look at the computers in 18 other directions. ONE OF THOSE COMPUTERS IS A LINUX.
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Tux having fingers kinda creeps me out.
Fuck, is this AI again?
This is what slop looks like, yes.
It's probably all the AI web crawlers that have Linux userstringe
It tracks along the lines of all the other linux usage stats. The actual % is a bit different by the trends all show growth. PH released 5% linux usage on the desktop. US Gov released 5% linux usage on desktop. If it included web crawlers and AI scrapers the % would be like 80% since thats the majority of internet traffic.
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