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.)
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 🙄
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Santa switched OS for all the elf slave laborers
Pfft, everyone knows Santa lives in Canada. His postal code is H0H 0H0!
As usual with StatCounter: crappy data.
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.
This increase is too abrupt, I don’t trust its accuracy
Wow. Is this real? Kind of amazing if it is.
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.
I have to admit. This is incredible.
That is unbelievable.
Agreed. I don’t believe it.
Amazing, I hope this continues
the perfect society
Do Fins use Linux in the summer and Windows in the autumn?
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