⚡ Operating Systems in Germany

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

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 16% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74.9% share.
It is followed by Ubuntu with 16.8% and Unix with 16.3%.

Linux 74.9%
Ubuntu 16.8%
Unix 16.3%
Debian 13.5%
Windows 8.3%
CentOS 2.8%
FreeBSD 0.6%
AlmaLinux 0.4%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.2%
Rocky Linux 0.2%
SUSE Linux 0.2%
Fedora 0.1%
Gentoo 0.08%
Oracle Linux 0.07%
Amazon Linux 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Ubuntu ^(-1)
3. Unix ^(-3)
7. FreeBSD ^(-3)
11. SUSE Linux ^(-5)
16. OpenBSD ^(-1)
17. Scientific Linux ^(-3)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 18 operating systems used on sites from Germany, 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	74.9%
2	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	16.8%
3	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	16.3%
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	13.5%
5	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	8.3%
6	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.8%
7	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	0.6%
8	AlmaLinux Estero, Florida, United States An open-source, community owned and governed, free enterprise Linux distribution focused on long-term stability. FreeOpen source	0.4%
9	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market. $383.90+	0.2%
10	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	0.2%
11	SUSE Linux Nuremberg, Germany A Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE. FreeOpen source€477.24+/year	0.2%
12	Fedora A Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Gentoo Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States A Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.	0.08%
14	Oracle Linux Austin, Texas, United States A Linux distribution based on RHEL source code, freely distributed by Oracle.	0.07%
15	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	0.06%
16	OpenBSD Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A security-focused open-source operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution.	0.02%
17	Scientific Linux A discontinued Linux distribution based on RHEL. Legacy	0.003%
18	Raspbian A free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. FreeOpen source	0.003%

👉 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 228,724 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 18 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.