⚡ Operating Systems in the United Arab Emirates

Server operating systems are designed for computers that provide network services, such as hosting websites or storing data.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 11.1% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

Statistics based on 10K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top operating systems on websites in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Linux with an impressive share of 53.1%, followed by Windows with 46% and Ubuntu with 28%.

Linux 53.1%
Windows 46%
Ubuntu 28%
Debian 1.6%
CentOS 1.1%
Unix 0.8%
Oracle Linux 0.8%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.5%
AlmaLinux 0.5%
Amazon Linux 0.2%
FreeBSD 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top systems that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. CentOS ^(-1)
7. Oracle Linux ^(-6)
10. Amazon Linux ^(-1)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 11 operating systems used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Linux San Francisco, California, United States 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. FreeOpen source	53.1%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	46%
3	Ubuntu London, United Kingdom A free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, designed for desktops, servers, cloud, and IoT environments. FreeOpen source$500+/year	28%
4	Debian New York, United States 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. FreeOpen source	1.6%
5	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.1%
6	Unix San Francisco, California, United States 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. FreeOpen source	0.8%
7	Oracle Linux Austin, Texas, United States A Linux distribution based on RHEL source code, freely distributed by Oracle.	0.8%
8	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A commercial enterprise Linux distribution designed for hybrid cloud deployments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. $383.90+	0.5%
9	AlmaLinux Estero, Florida, United States An open-source enterprise Linux distribution focused on long-term stability and binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreeOpen source	0.5%
10	Amazon Linux Seattle, Washington, United States A supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Free	0.2%
11	FreeBSD Boulder, Colorado, United States An open-source Unix-like operating system designed for reliability, performance, and advanced networking across servers, desktops, and embedded systems. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Operating Systems in other countries

🗃️ 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 10,385 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.