⚡ Operating Systems in Belgium

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

Belgium is a Western European country with a population of over 12 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 14% of websites from Belgium.

Statistics based on 28K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux, which dominates the market with a substantial 71.3% share.
It is followed by Windows with 26.9% and Ubuntu with 14.9%.

Linux 71.3%
Windows 26.9%
Ubuntu 14.9%
Debian 13.6%
CentOS 2.5%
Unix 1.8%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.5%
Rocky Linux 0.4%
AlmaLinux 0.3%
FreeBSD 0.3%
Gentoo 0.1%
Amazon Linux 0.03%
SUSE Linux 0.03%
Mageia 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

8. Rocky Linux ^(-1)
11. Gentoo ^(-2)
13. SUSE Linux ^(-3)
14. Mageia ^(-7)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 14 operating systems used on sites from Belgium, 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	71.3%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	26.9%
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	14.9%
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	13.6%
5	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.5%
6	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	1.8%
7	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market. $383.90+	0.5%
8	Rocky Linux Albany, California, United States An open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreeOpen source	0.4%
9	AlmaLinux Estero, Florida, United States An open-source, community owned and governed, free enterprise Linux distribution focused on long-term stability. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	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	0.3%
11	Gentoo Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States A Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.	0.1%
12	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	0.03%
13	SUSE Linux Nuremberg, Germany A Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE. FreeOpen source€477.24+/year	0.03%
14	Mageia An open-source operating system forked from Mandriva Linux.	0.03%

👉 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 28,458 websites from Belgium.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from Belgium.
Statistics were last calculated on May 16, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.