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.)
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.