🆚 Fedora vs. Windows

Type

Operating system
Operating system

About

Fedora Linux is an open-source operating system developed by the Fedora Project that serves as the upstream community distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

It delivers rapid release cycles with early access to new Linux kernel versions and system components, uses the DNF package manager with RPM packages, enforces security through SELinux, ships Fedora Workstation with the GNOME desktop on Wayland by default, and uses Btrfs as the default filesystem in recent releases.

Windows is a family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments.

In its Windows Server editions, it combines web hosting through IIS with support for ASP.NET, application pools and SSL management, alongside Active Directory for centralized identity, Hyper-V virtualization, PowerShell automation, and hybrid cloud integration with Azure.

Headquarters

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ❌
Windows Server 2025
Standard edition$1,176
Datacenter edition$6,771

Categories

Operating Systems › Rank #12
Operating Systems › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Windows operating system is 232 times more popular than Fedora.
Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Windows is more popular than Fedora in all countries.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Canada
Germany
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Windows is more popular than Fedora in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#20,686
#24,247
#29,648
#37,248
storiesonline.net
#38,754
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