Linux adoption rate by country

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Interesting article when it meandered. The US/India/China paradigm got old fast.

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Anybody else surprised by Ubu? Arch? I sure was.

If you combine the two Rhel’s you have a 12% share. Note: the market share numbers adds up to 64. Which brings me to the most interesting stat not being shown–35% of the Linux use market is forks/derivatives/independents/BSD. 35% is other.

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"Linux Adoption Rate by Country Key Statistics

  • Linux holds 4.7% of the global desktop operating system market share as of 2025
  • India recorded the highest Linux adoption rate at 16.21% among major countries (July 2024)
  • The United States reached 5.03% Linux desktop market share in June 2025
  • Linux powers 100% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers as of November 2024
  • The global Linux market is expected to reach $99.69 billion by 2032, growing at 20.9% CAGR"
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they did a count elsewhere in the article where if you added the US linux Servers we’d have a bigger share than India. The global stats, as I said, can be spun any which way.

The 2032 stat ^ is the sobering one.

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To the Moon! You love to see it!

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I am truly surprised by Arch Linux share at 2.1%. It is a minuscule of the whole. I expected it to be a little higher, say 10% or more.

And still AUR is being targeted. When there are Debian/Ubunutu and others to go after, with bigger market share. I am pretty sure that those who are targeting AUR are either after our massively powerful machines running Arch/EOS or after a certain subset of some crucial players who use AUR or maintain packages in AUR Repo. After all why be so persistent in going after AUR?

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Yer and no
I also will say again are these people or machines downloading to achieve whatever goal was given?
Apparently 60% internet traffic nowdays bots or ai (cant remember source but something to think on)

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Why is India so gung ho about Linux?

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Cos they not silly enough to pay for a licence they dont need or want
(a guess)

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2.1% is HUGE. All others on this list are either servers or backed by Corps.