Ubuntu is the most used Linux desktop operating system, but that might not be all that transparent, so we would also like to present some interesting figures, like the number of Windows users that download Ubuntu every day.

A competition between Linux and Windows has always existed, and it won't end too soon. It's difficult to have actual numbers regarding this particular competition, and with the exception of some percentages regarding the user of the open source alternative, there isn't too much to go on. Microsoft is not releasing true, official numbers anytime soon, and the Linux world is too fragmented to get anything solid.

Fortunately for us, Canonical has put together some interesting figures, albeit a little bit old. From the looks of it, the numbers have been posted since 2012, but Ubuntu is becoming more popular, so it's safe to say that they have probably increased since.

How many Windows users download Ubuntu every day?

The answer to that question is 30,000. It's not every month or every week; it's every day. Recently, Canonical announced that Ubuntu is installed on 20 million computers, so those old numbers are not quite outdated.

"There are over 200,000 active community members contributing to Ubuntu every day. There are over 45,000 apps available in the Ubuntu Software Centre. Nearly 70% of the PCs shipped by the major PC companies are now certified to work with Ubuntu," is noted on the official website.

To be fair, some of the info posted on the same page is somewhat outdated, including the following: "Ubuntu is a single operating system, with a coherent family of interfaces optimised for the PC, phone and TV."

In any case, Ubuntu seems to provide a serious alternative to Windows systems, and there are many other Linux distros out there that can do the same thing, with ease.