🆚 Unix vs. Windows
- 📈 Windows is much more popular than Unix.
- 🌎 Windows is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Unix is more popular in Germany and Cameroon.
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About
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs that became one of the foundations of modern server, networking, and enterprise computing.
It introduced portable 
C-based system architecture, hierarchical file systems, command-line shells, pipelines, user permissions, background processes, and a modular design philosophy built around combining small utilities through standard text-based interfaces.
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 by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark 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 Vietnam in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Ubuntu
Debian
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AlmaLinux🗃️ 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 3,533,726 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.