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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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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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[-] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago

Am I misremembering or did Finland begin migrating a large number of their government systems to linux/FOSS software?

[-] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 days ago

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 🙄

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

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 :)

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I think it was Denmark and/or a province (?) of Germany

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