⚡ Operating Systems in Ireland

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

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 19.3% of websites from Ireland.

Statistics based on 13K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux, which dominates the market with a substantial 67.7% share.
It is followed by Windows with 31.6% and Ubuntu with 18.3%.

Linux 67.7%
Windows 31.6%
Ubuntu 18.3%
Debian 3.9%
Amazon Linux 1.6%
CentOS 1.1%
Unix 0.6%
AlmaLinux 0.4%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.3%
Rocky Linux 0.1%
FreeBSD 0.1%
CloudLinux 0.1%
Fedora 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Amazon Linux ^(-6)
12. CloudLinux ^(-3)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 13 operating systems used on sites from Ireland, 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	67.7%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	31.6%
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	18.3%
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	3.9%
5	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	1.6%
6	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.1%
7	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	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+	0.3%
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	0.1%
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	0.1%
12	CloudLinux Estero, Florida, United States A commercial Linux distribution marketed to shared hosting providers. $7+/month	0.1%
13	Fedora A Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 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 13,844 websites from Ireland.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.