Week 44 · fresh every Monday

Linux distro rankings, made simple

The 50 most-followed Linux distributions, scored every week from search interest, Wikipedia readers, development activity and release health. Pure data, no votes.

The race

How the top 10 moved week by week. Hover or tap a line to follow one distro.

outside top 10 W44W43W42W41W40W39W38W37W36W35W34W33 1 Linux Mint 2 CachyOS 3 Ubuntu 4 Fedora 5 Bazzite 6 Debian 7 Omarchy NEW 8 Arch Linux 9 Pop!_OS 10 Zorin OS outside top 10 W44W43W42W41W40W39 1 Linux Mint 2 CachyOS 3 Ubuntu 4 Fedora 5 Bazzite 6 Debian 7 Omarchy NEW 8 Arch Linux 9 Pop!_OS 10 Zorin OS
Top 10 rank per week, last 12 weeks
DistroW33W34W35W36W37W38W39W40W41W42W43W44
Linux Mint111111111111
CachyOS322223322222
Ubuntu233532233333
Fedora555345445444
Bazzite988887766665
Debian444454554556
Omarchy–––––––––––7
Arch Linux666666677778
Pop!_OS777778888889
Zorin OS8999999999910

Badge color shows the distro's tierUpdated

The data tier list

Every tier is a score range, so a distro only moves when its numbers do.

  • S85+
  • A70–84
  • B55–69
  • C40–54
  • Dunder 40

Tier S

Top tier · 4
  1. #1 – Linux Mint 94.1
  2. #2 – CachyOS 91.7
  3. #3 – Ubuntu 90.2
  4. #4 – Fedora 86.4

Tier A

Great · 6
  1. #5 1 places up Bazzite 83.9
  2. #6 1 places down Debian 81.0
  3. #7 NEW Omarchy 79.5
  4. #8 1 places down Arch Linux 77.8
  5. #9 1 places down Pop!_OS 74.2
  6. #10 1 places down Zorin OS 71.6

Tier B

Good · 6
  1. #11 – MX Linux 68.3
  2. #12 2 places down EndeavourOS 66.9
  3. #13 1 places down openSUSE Tumbleweed 63.1
  4. #14 1 places down NixOS 61.4
  5. #15 1 places down Manjaro 59.0
  6. #16 1 places down elementary OS 55.2

Tier C

Niche · 9
  1. #17 1 places down Kali Linux 53.7
  2. #18 1 places down Nobara 51.9
  3. #19 1 places down Garuda Linux 49.4
  4. #20 1 places down Tails 47.0
  5. #21 1 places down Kubuntu 45.8
  6. #22 – Rocky Linux 44.9
  7. #23 – AlmaLinux 43.7
  8. #24 3 places down Linux Lite 42.1
  9. #25 1 places down KDE neon 40.6

Tier D

Long tail · 25
  1. #26 1 places down Void Linux 39.2
  2. #27 1 places up Gentoo 38.0
  3. #28 2 places down Xubuntu 36.9
  4. #29 2 places down Solus 35.5
  5. #30 NEW Vanilla OS 34.8
  6. #31 2 places down Alpine Linux 33.1
  7. #32 2 places down Parrot OS 32.4
  8. #33 2 places down Lubuntu 31.0
  9. #34 2 places down antiX 30.2
  10. #35 2 places down Ubuntu MATE 29.4
  11. #36 – Peppermint OS 28.7
  12. #37 3 places down Qubes OS 27.9
  13. #38 3 places down Deepin 27.0
  14. #39 2 places down Rhino Linux 26.1
  15. #40 2 places down Slackware 25.3
  16. #41 – Puppy Linux 24.0
  17. #42 NEW PikaOS 23.2
  18. #43 4 places down Fedora Silverblue 22.5
  19. #44 4 places down Asahi Linux 21.6
  20. #45 3 places down ChimeraOS 20.8
  21. #46 3 places down Bodhi Linux 19.9
  22. #47 3 places down Mageia 19.0
  23. #48 2 places down SparkyLinux 18.2
  24. #49 4 places down Artix Linux 17.5
  25. #50 3 places down BunsenLabs 16.4

Moved up a tier

Nobody moved upthis week

Moved down a tier

Kali LinuxB→C