Pingdom通过Google的搜索趋势统计出了全球范围内Linux的用户普及度数据，结果显示，印度，古巴和俄罗斯是全球Linux应用最广泛,而捷克和印度尼西亚紧随其后。

在西方国家中，Linux在德国一枝独秀，而计算机行业最为发达的美国，Linux却没有以上国家那么流行，以下是数据。

全球范围内的数据：

美国数据

原来不同发行套件也有不同的国家喜欢它.

Ubuntu is most popular in Italy and Cuba.
OpenSUSE is most popular in Russia and the Czech Republic.
Red Hat is most popular in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Debian is most popular in Cuba.
Cuba is in the top five (interest-wise) of three of the eight distributions in this survey.
Indonesia is in the top five of four of the distributions.
Russia and the Czech Republic are in the top five of five of the distributions.
The United States is not in the top five of any of the distributions.
Ubuntu的普及情况

最喜欢Ubuntu的国家

Italy
Cuba
Indonesia
Norway
Czech Republic
OpenSUSE

最喜欢OpenSUSE的国家:

Russia
Czech Republic
Moldova
Germany
Indonesia
Fedora

最喜欢Fedora的国家:

Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Zimbabwe