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.)
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.