🆚 Debian vs. Ubuntu
- 📈 Ubuntu is three times more popular than Debian.
- 🌎 Ubuntu is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 Debian is more popular in France, the Czech Republic, and Austria.
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About
Debian is a free and open-source 
Linux distribution that provides a stable operating system with a strong focus on reliability, security, and universal compatibility across multiple hardware architectures.
It includes a package-based system managed with APT, offers more than 70,000 tested software packages in its repositories, and serves as the foundation for over 120 derivative distributions including 
Ubuntu and Kali Linux.
Ubuntu is a free operating system based on 
Debian GNU/Linux, designed for desktops, servers, cloud, and IoT environments.
It includes the GNOME desktop environment, uses APT and 
Snap for software distribution, provides built-in security with AppArmor and unattended updates, offers official cloud images and container support with tools like 
Docker and 
Kubernetes, and is available on major cloud platforms such as 
AWS, 
Microsoft Azure, and 
Google Cloud.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Finland in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.