🆚 Linux vs. Ubuntu
- 📈 Linux is four times more popular than Ubuntu.
- 🌍 Linux is more popular in all countries.
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About
Linux is a family of open-source, Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, originally created by Linus Torvalds and now maintained by a global community of contributors.
It is widely used as a server operating system for web and application hosting, supporting web servers such as Apache and 
Nginx, databases such as MySQL and 
PostgreSQL, container runtimes such as 
Docker and LXC, and virtualization with KVM.
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
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany 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.
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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- 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.