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After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros
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I've recently looked at some statistics to get a sense of Linux overall market share, and it does seem to be hovering around 7% currently, which is a heck of a lot for Linux but of course still less than every 10th PC. And then there's some more wrinkles to that.
For example one wrinkle I didn't know about is this is skewed by a few countries, namely India has a gigantic 30% of Linux market share iirc. So you might know about the Linux growth if you live in India, but not as much in the US or Europe.
I didn't know it was so high in India. Interesting. Any guesses as to why it's so much higher there compared to the US and EU?
No clue, I'm still puzzled by that and open to theories.
My initial guess was that they have a big tech community there. A lot of the IT call centers are outsourced there. And with all the tech people they probably gravitate toward Linux. Just a guess though.
Yeah I was initially thinking the call centres don't wanna deal with expensive windows licenses and prefer to just use Linux, or maybe all those scam call centres need operational security and therefore Linux, or maybe there is some cultural thing where people naturally gravitate to open source? Or maybe there was some censorship implemented into Windows systems for India and everyone is just bailing by switching to Linux or something but honestly none of those theories have a lot of weight behind it so my guess is as good as the next guy.