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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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[-] krimson@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago

What happens in Finland?

I can imagine Linus being from Finland is probably having some influence.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 63 points 3 days ago

Did that only kick in in March 2025? That seems like a rather sudden onset of Finnishness for a 55 year old guy.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago

Suddenly perkele.

[-] krimson@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Lol fair point.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

He finnished up

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

Seems plausible, but why now?

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago

That and European countries wanting digital sovereignty.

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