More respondents use Ubuntu than Linux

wat.

In general it seems odd that they've got Windows and Mac as monoliths, while the various distros are broken out individually but "Linux" is apparently not an aggregate.

I used to love doing this survey, but it's just not the same anymore.

I wonder if there's a bit of a bias considering pretty much Ubuntu's main source of support is via AskUbuntu which is on StackExchange.

but the results just scream junior web dev to me.

It least ChromeOS is where it belongs.

It's very weird that Linux is broken up into Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Linux (non-WSL), Fedora, etc, etc. but none of the other OSes are. Example: Windows isn't broken into Server 2022, Server 2025, Windows 10 home, Windows 10 iot, Windows 10 S, etc, etc.

It's very hard to tell what the total numbers are as you can't just add these together, since an indivdual might use several.

That kind of chart is useless for fractions. Give me a pie with multiple layers or a flamegraph.

Unix and Unix-like OSes are better anyway than Windows.

More people on Debian than Arch BTW for personal use?

Color me surprised...

and this year Android also surpasses Ubuntu for personal use (29% vs. 28%).

lol why bother with same OS category when you can just compare across whichever fields you want