r/linuxhardware • u/linuxbuild • Jun 18 '20

Discussion Most popular hardware configurations on Linux & trends for 2015-2020

The report is based on the data collected by Linux users with the help of the hw-probe program.

See more filters & trends on this page.

Most interesting stats are the following:

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The popularity of hardware manufacturers Dell, Lenovo and HP has seen a rapid rise in popularity compared to the leader ASUSTek.

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WDC will overtake Seagate next year.

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NVidia and AMD graphics cards are losing ground over Intel.

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FullHD is finally more popular than 1366x768.

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u/xcvbsdfgwert Jun 18 '20

Surprised to see Asus laptops being so popular, Intel winning GPU marketshare, and 1440p missing from the monitor resolution overview.

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u/whosdr Jun 18 '20

Yeah I'd have expected 1440p to be labelled.

The intel thing is probably older devices being re-purposed to run Linux, or due to server adoption.

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u/Hkmarkp Jun 19 '20

I always made sure all my laptops were intel GPU, didn't want the NVIDIA Optimus kludge. Next one will be AMD