/r/linux/

r/linux

1.2M members
r/linux is a subreddit with 1.2M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size.
Welcome to /r/Linux! This is a community for sharing news about Linux, interesting developments and press. If you're looking for tech support, /r/Linux4Noobs is a friendly community that can help you. Please also check out: https://lemmy.ml/c/linux and Kbin.social/m/Linux Please refrain from posting help requests here, cheers.

Popular Themes in r/linux

#1
News
: "IBM’s Red Hat Sued by Stephen Miller’s Legal Group for Anti-White Male Bias"
23 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I had seen this poster at my university a while ago. Anyone happen to have an HD/original copy?"
15 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "I killed Windows today"
15 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I wrote a really simple TUI Bash script to wrap common package managers"
6 posts
#5
Advice Requests
: "My recommendations for training new Linux desktop users"
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "I love the KDE wallpaper so much that I paid to get a mousepad made with that same image! "
1 post

Popular Topics in r/linux

#1

Linux

: "another game bites the dust, you can no longer play League on Linux (or Windows VM) and Mac VM with AMD GPU pass through is the only option"
99 posts
#2

Release

: "Fedora 40 has officially Released"
14 posts
#3

Kde

: "I love the Kde wallpaper so much that I paid to get a mousepad made with that same image! "
10 posts
#4

Wayland

: "niri v0.1.5: a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, with amazing new animations"
7 posts
#5

Ubuntu

: "Remember Ubuntu from 20 years ago? How far we've come! Share your old distro screenshots."
6 posts
#6

Gnome

: "A linux support dev from a very popular game called Factorio has raised some concerns about Gnome's client-side window decorations"
6 posts
#7

Systemd

: "Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement"
5 posts
#8

Desktop

: "HackMatrix (3d Desktop) v1 release"
5 posts
#9

Steam

: "How comes Steam manages to make most of Windows games working flawlessly on Linux but we still can’t get any recent version if MS Office to work ?"
5 posts
#10

Kernel

: "The 6.9 Kernel is out"
5 posts

Audience Ranking

Subreddits for Software Developers

26 subs, 24.6M members+489k/mo (2.0%)
r/software
r/linux
r/javascript
r/elixir
r/iOSProgramming
r/learnjavascript
r/AskComputerScience
r/rust
r/csharp
r/ExperiencedDevs
r/Python
r/reactjs
r/reactnative
r/computerscience
r/learnpython
r/webdev
r/programming
r/cscareerquestions
#1
Upvotes per post
#1
Comments per post
#2
Max upvotes
#2
Oldest
#3
Daily growth (%)
#3
Monthly growth (%)

Member Growth in r/linux

Daily
+2k members(0.1%)
Monthly
+54k members(4.7%)
Yearly
+375k members(44.9%)

Similar Subreddits to r/linux

/r/opensource

r/opensource

223k members
1.30% / mo
/r/archlinux

r/archlinux

257k members
0.90% / mo

r/linuxquestions

259k members
1.36% / mo
/r/kubernetes

r/kubernetes

131k members
2.30% / mo
/r/rust

r/rust

292k members
1.71% / mo
/r/node

r/node

266k members
1.31% / mo
/r/kde

r/kde

111k members
1.35% / mo
/r/Ubuntu

r/Ubuntu

227k members
0.89% / mo
/r/brave_browser

r/brave_browser

92k members
0.56% / mo