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Linux Questions

A subreddit for asking question about Linux and all things pertaining to it.

409k subscribers1,803 posts / mo in Sep 20261,544 authors / mosince 2009

r/linuxquestions has 409k members (+23% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,803 posts a month from 1,544 people. Top topics: Ubuntu USB Installation Issues, Dual Booting & Partitioning and Linux Gaming.

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Size and growth

How r/linuxquestions has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+23%in 12 months · +3.7% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 2026408k
Growing408k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+9.8%vs Sep 2025 · −11% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.8k
BusierPeaked at 3.1k in Nov 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/linuxquestions

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Ubuntu USB Installation Issues2.6%
  2. Dual Booting & Partitioning2.5%
  3. Linux Gaming2.1%
  4. Terminal Commands1.4%
  5. Linux Terminal Basics1.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Lintian
  2. Ubuntu
  3. The Fedora Project
  4. DistroSea
  5. Microsoft

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