⚡ Operating Systems in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 15.1% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Windows, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.5% share.
It is followed by Linux with 13.6% and Ubuntu with 9.3%.

Windows 85.5%
Linux 13.6%
Ubuntu 9.3%
CentOS 2.7%
Unix 1.2%
Debian 0.4%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.1%
SUSE Linux 0.07%
Rocky Linux 0.05%
Fedora 0.008%
Amazon Linux 0.008%
AlmaLinux 0.008%
FreeBSD 0.008%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Windows ^(-1)
4. CentOS ^(-1)
5. Unix ^(-1)
8. SUSE Linux ^(-8)
10. Fedora ^(-2)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 13 operating systems used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	85.5%
2	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	13.6%
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	9.3%
4	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.7%
5	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	1.2%
6	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	0.4%
7	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market. $383.90+	0.1%
8	SUSE Linux Nuremberg, Germany A Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE. FreeOpen source€477.24+/year	0.07%
9	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	0.05%
10	Fedora A Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. FreeOpen source	0.008%
11	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	0.008%
12	AlmaLinux Estero, Florida, United States An open-source, community owned and governed, free enterprise Linux distribution focused on long-term stability. FreeOpen source	0.008%
13	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	0.008%

👉 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.