⚡ Operating Systems in the Philippines

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

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 11.2% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 5K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux, which dominates the market with a substantial 70.1% share.
It is followed by Windows with 28% and Ubuntu with 25.6%.

Linux 70.1%
Windows 28%
Ubuntu 25.6%
CentOS 20.2%
Debian 2.8%
Unix 2.1%
AlmaLinux 0.9%
Amazon Linux 0.6%
Rocky Linux 0.3%
Fedora 0.3%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.2%
Oracle Linux 0.2%
Gentoo 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. CentOS ^(-1)
7. AlmaLinux ^(-1)
8. Amazon Linux ^(-3)
10. Fedora ^(-2)
12. Oracle Linux ^(-2)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 13 operating systems used on sites from the Philippines, 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	70.1%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	28%
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	25.6%
4	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Legacy	20.2%
5	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	2.8%
6	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	2.1%
7	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	0.9%
8	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	0.6%
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	0.3%
10	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%
11	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+	0.2%
12	Oracle Linux Austin, Texas, United States A Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code, freely distributed by Oracle.	0.2%
13	Gentoo Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States A Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.	0.2%

👉 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 5,639 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.