Soon there will be more Ubuntus installed on Windows than as a native operating system

Ubuntu is one of the most famous Linux distributions thanks to a design and philosophy that seek to make it a much friendlier operating system than most distributions. This has earned it a place on the computers of many users who were looking to leave Windows behind.

Although Windows usage figures are still several orders of magnitude higher than what Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution can achieve, there is no doubt that Ubuntu has managed to carve out a more than large niche in the market.

Use of Ubuntu for Windows has grown much more than native Ubuntu

The vice president of Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu, has offered something that is at least striking: last year, the growth of the version of Ubuntu that is installed on Windows (using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for this purpose), it has grown much more than Ubuntu installations themselves as a native operating system.

In fact, the growth is such that they expect that in the coming months There will be more Ubuntus installed on Windows than computers with Ubuntu as their native operating system.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux or WSL is a feature that has been integrated into Windows 11 for a few years that allows you to run Linux environments directly on the computer on Windows, without having to install Linux as another operating system or configure dual boots.

Basically, it is a type of specific virtual machine with an integrated Linux kernel that also allows both operating systems to interoperate.