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Finland: Linux reaches desktop market share of 19.1% in July - up from 5.4% in January (gs.statcounter.com)
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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3907142

In all other countries worldwide, Linux market shares are well below 10%.

Linux market shares in July 2025:

  • Africa: 3.1%
  • Europe: 4.6%
  • Asia: 2.4
  • North America: 4.9%
  • South America: 3.6%
  • Oceania: 2.3%
  • Worldwide: 3.9%

What happens in Finland?

UPDATE: There was apparently a similar development in 2022 according to the stats when Linux market share in Finland went up to +18 by July and then dropped sharply to 4% by the end of the year. I don't understand that, but maybe the data is flawed? (My apologies for any confusion this may cause.)

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As usual with StatCounter: crappy data.

[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this is very likely bad data. This whole post should be deleted.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you explain a bit why you think it is so?

[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. Statscounter has a history of questionable data. They don't have a representative sample of websites, and there are technical challenges.

Finland is a small population so would suffer from sample size issues.

What catalyst is there to drive an almost 4x market share growth? And the collapse of Mac?

Flip through a few countries, you can tell they are having issues with OS classification.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago

Thank you, it seems to be a consensus that this is fluke.