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Finland: Linux reaches desktop market share of 19.1% in July - up from 5.4% in January
(gs.statcounter.com)
Do Fins use Linux in the summer and Windows in the autumn?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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Statcounter data gets noisy for small countries. This is probably just a fluctuation.
However, Linux usage is up in Statcounter and also in Steam data. The overall trend is very positive.
What happens in Finland?
I can imagine Linus being from Finland is probably having some influence.
Did that only kick in in March 2025? That seems like a rather sudden onset of Finnishness for a 55 year old guy.
Suddenly perkele.
Lol fair point.
He finnished up
That and European countries wanting digital sovereignty.
Seems plausible, but why now?
I think schools and universities in Finland are giving out free computers with Linux installed for a few years now.
Not mine, they're entrenched with M$. Everything is done with M$ Office, even programming exercises and projects are uploaded to OneDrive for the teacher to examine
Oh what's that, you need me to authenticate again even though I did that just this morning? .......
I searched the internet an found and alternative platform to the Threadiverse where this was discussed (something starting with R, I don't remember).
So actually I don't know shit about Finland, but it seemed like the only explanation yet that makes sense. But if you're Finnish I guess you know a lot more about how it works up there!
Some schools or universities might be starting to embrace Linux, but at least in North Karelia all the universities (applied science or not) & high- and vocational schools use MS products
Am I misremembering or did Finland begin migrating a large number of their government systems to linux/FOSS software?
Not us, but some other European countries are doing it. I feel Finland is going to be the last in line to give up Microsofts and Facebooks despite Linus and Jolla / Sailfish 🙄
Are you still using Sailfish? I used it for about 5 years but eventually caved in and switched to GrapheneOS.
I wish the tablet had made it, I feel like it would be an easier market to break into as the app gap matters less.
Same same, on Graphene now. There is a new Jolla phone in the works now (you can vote for features such as screen size on the forums at jolla.com right now!), that might spark a mini-renaissance when it comes out and gets it's 15 min media fame :)
I think it was Denmark and/or a province (?) of Germany
Santa switched OS for all the elf slave laborers
Santa lives in Canada. You can send him mail and he will reply.
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/write-letter-to-santa.page
Don’t tell that to the kids in Finland 😉
https://santaclausvillage.info/activities/santa-claus-main-post-office/
Note the UPDATE on that thread. Apparently this same spike happened in 2022 and then dropped back to 4%. So this could be a problem with the data.
As usual with StatCounter: crappy data.
Yeah this is very likely bad data. This whole post should be deleted.
Can you explain a bit why you think it is so?
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.
Thank you, it seems to be a consensus that this is fluke.
Holy cow!!
IS IT HAPPENING?!?!
Is it finally actually happening?!?!?!
It is truly the yea- !
*falls down seven flights of stairs*
You better watch out for those windows on your way down
This increase is too abrupt, I don't trust its accuracy
Wow. Is this real? Kind of amazing if it is.
I was going to suggest tech literacy levels as Finland is basically joint top in Europe joint with Netherlands. But while the Netherlands has above average Linux usage it's not close to Finland.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/netherlands/zawwjy8.tokyo
That is unbelievable.
Agreed. I don't believe it.
Amazing, I hope this continues
I have to admit. This is incredible.
Can we get it to 99?!
the perfect society