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Linux, GNU/Linux, free software.... 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 and /r/linuxquestions are friendly communities 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. Founded 2008 · 1.9M members

1.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.5K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.9Mmembers
20.5Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
750posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

52% 22% 20%
Link 52% Image 22% Text 20% Question 5% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Software Release 153 Discussion 88 Kernel 61 Development 56 Popular Application 32 Fluff 31 Distro News 30 Event 23 Hardware 20 Tips and Tricks 18

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

VLC has now reached 3 billions downloads and still no toolbar, adware, or other crapware bundled.

↑ 20.5K 💬 632 link 2019

Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds

↑ 18.1K 💬 265 image 2025

Today....33 years ago!

↑ 15.6K 💬 397 image 2024

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves …

↑ 15.2K 💬 635 text 2026

This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of the VLC media player, he refused tens of millions of euros in order to keep VLC ads-free. Merci, Jean!

↑ 15.1K 💬 349 image 2017

Goodbye With Love

↑ 14.5K 💬 473 text 2019

Should we go dark on the 12th?

↑ 14.4K 💬 929 question 2023

If you search for Linux on Duckduckgo the icon changes to a penguin

↑ 13.7K 💬 199 image 2025

Happy Birthday Linus Torvalds..!

↑ 13.1K 💬 293 image 2024

Pres Elect Trump has setup a website asking how we can make America Great again. Now is your time to write why we should implement a more open-source…

↑ 12.3K 💬 469 link 2016

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/linux, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/linux?
r/linux ("Linux, GNU/Linux, free software...") describes itself this way: 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 and /r/linuxquestions are friendly communities 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. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.9M members.
How many members does r/linux have?
r/linux has about 1.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 750 of its posts; the biggest reached 20.5K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/linux?
"VLC has now reached 3 billions downloads and still no toolbar, adware, or other crapware bundled." reached 20.5K upvotes and 632 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/linux.
What subreddits are similar to r/linux?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/linux?
Of the posts we hold, 52% are link posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/linux?
Across 750 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 07:00 UTC (6.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/linux?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/linux has 9.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 197 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/linux, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.