Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.
flathub.org/en/year-in-review/…
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Oleksii
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Stanislav Ochotnický
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •I need a new computer and I'm holding my horses waiting for it.
Phocque
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Fabio Manganiello
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •could it be because many ARM devices are still unlikely to use Flatpak?
I mean I think that recent RPis & friends may still be grouped under the “Linux desktop” category, and in that case I don’t think that they’d be making up <1% of the market. It’s just that they’re more likely to use Debian-based solutions and perhaps Snap rather than Flatpak.
Same for many Termux on Android solutions (are they counted?), running on ARM but very unlikely to use Flatpak.
If you exclude these big segments I think that at the current state you’re mostly left with folks who install Linux on their ARM Macbooks or Surface devices, since even popular manufacturers among Linux users (like Tuxedo or Dell) don’t even ship ARM-based solutions yet.
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Fabio Manganiello • • •From me it was a little sigh that despite all the predictions we still don't have ARM as a widely available hardware architecture for desktop usage.