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r/linuxmemes↗

alias 2025='echo "YEAR OF THE DESKTOP"'

A pissed off sub about Linux

185k subscribers577 posts / mo in Sep 2026381 authors / mosince 2012

r/linuxmemes has 185k members (+23% over the last 12 months). It gets about 577 posts a month from 381 people. Top topics: Linux Users, Arch Linux Installations and Linux Desktop.

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Size and growth

How r/linuxmemes has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+23%in 12 months · +4.5% in 3 months · +1.1% in 1 month
Oct 2026185k
Growing185k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+68%vs Sep 2025 · +19% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026577
BusierPeaked at 1.3k in Jan 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/linuxmemes

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Linux Users6.7%
  2. Arch Linux Installations2.8%
  3. Linux Desktop2.2%
  4. Linux Distributions1.8%
  5. Linux vs Windows1.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. xkcd
  2. The Linux Kernel Archives
  3. Ko-fi
  4. GNU Project
  5. Lintian

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Everything else about r/linuxmemes

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research