⚡ Operating Systems in Colombia

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

Colombia is a South American country with a population of over 52 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 11.6% of websites from Colombia.

Statistics based on 8K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux with a substantial share of 65%, followed by Windows with 33.6% and Ubuntu with 27.3%.

Linux 65%
Windows 33.6%
Ubuntu 27.3%
Debian 7.3%
CentOS 6.2%
Unix 1.4%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1.3%
Rocky Linux 0.7%
Oracle Linux 0.7%
AlmaLinux 0.7%
Amazon Linux 0.3%
Fedora 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. CentOS ^(-1)
7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^(-1)
8. Rocky Linux ^(-1)
9. Oracle Linux ^(-4)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 12 operating systems used on sites from Colombia, 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	65%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	33.6%
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	27.3%
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	7.3%
5	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	6.2%
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	1.4%
7	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+	1.3%
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	0.7%
9	Oracle Linux Austin, Texas, United States A Linux distribution based on RHEL source code, freely distributed by Oracle.	0.7%
10	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	0.7%
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	0.3%
12	Fedora Raleigh, North Carolina, United States An open-source operating system developed by the Fedora Project that serves as the upstream community distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreeOpen source	0.3%

👉 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 8,141 websites from Colombia.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from Colombia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.