The report is based on hardware probes of total 47 thousands of computers made by Linux users in 2020. Report details and Linux distribution-specific reports are available in this GitHub repository.

The share of i686 users decreased dramatically:



The share of desktop users continues to fall. Part of laptop users keeps growing:



Only 30% of respondents updated hardware in 2020. Half of them bought brand new hardware and the rest - last year's hardware from 2019:



The share of computers with enabled SecureBoot continues to grow slowly:



The share of computers w/o a CD-ROM exceeded for the first time the number of computers with CD-ROM. CD-ROMs are going away finally:



The share of WiFi-only computers (w/o an Ethernet port) keeps growing:



ASUSTek losing ground in favor of HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and MSI. Gigabyte stagnates:



The share of ThinkPad and IdeaPad models by Lenovo and Latitude by Dell keeps growing:



Sum of SSD and NVMe drives overtook HDDs by the end of the year:



Most popular HDD - Seagate showing slow growth, the rest are stagnating:



Most popular SSD - Samsung showing slow growth. Crucial and WDC show relatively fast growth:



The share of Full HD monitors increased dramatically this year and now takes up half of the total number of monitors. Part of 4K monitors keeps growing too:



The share of Intel and AMD graphics cards keeps growing slowly. Part of NVIDIA users keeps falling slowly:



The share of AMD processors started to grow. Part of Intel processors started to fall:



The share of Intel WiFi chips keeps growing fast, the rest are stagnating:



Realtek Ethernet chips losing ground in favor of Intel:



The share of Intel Bluetooth keeps growing fast, the rest are stagnating:



Thanks for your attention! Please keep adding your hardware to the database to not to miss important hardware trends in 2021!