🆚 Linux vs. Windows
- 📈 Linux is twice as popular as Windows.
- 🌎 Linux is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Italy.
- 🌍 Windows is more popular in Turkey, China, and Sweden.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam 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 3,866,278 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.