Resol, (edited )
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s what it looks like in Morocco:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2012bb02-e558-4126-aba1-7617e55ef355.jpeg

Somehow we prefer using the Apple more than the Penguin.

ILikeBoobies,

Why is Chrome OS separate?

ftbd,

Enslaved Linux

jbk,
Amends1782,

Lmao true

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

It doesn’t really feel like Linux if you ask me. It’s not even open source, since Google controls everything. You could run Linux apps on it with a special mode I guess, but what bugs me is that they call Linux a “feature” when it’s absolutely not that at all.

But really, not a single soul in Morocco has even heard of Chrome OS. And even then, they’re gonna hate it.

ILikeBoobies,

Linux not GNU

separating just hurts the willingness to try Linux

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Sad

WoefKat,

Cool that they put FreeBSD in the list anyhow! I’m part of that 0.01% globally (though not in Morocco).

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

You’re the first person I know that uses FreeBSD.

WoefKat,

You could be the second!!

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Who knows?

Xavier,

In Canada, Apple is taking most of the increase, I wish Linux was more prevalent but I’m happy to see the downward slope for Windows:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/5eba766d-a296-4b2e-974e-9bfa9fb5ca5e.jpeg

franklin,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

I just hope asahi Linux takes of because the M3 looks sick but I’ll be fucked if I get sucked into the apple ecosystem. I’d rather be forced to use Windows on arm.

Agent641,

UnkownOS is a great privacy operating system. If users dont know what they are doing, then how can the government?

jack,

Welcome to the circlejerk thread

yagav50850,

What?

jack,

Our monthly jerkoff to Linux numbers

creation7758,

Nah. The data is from 2022. Still milking last year’s numbers

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

August 2022

Old data, man.
https://i.imgur.com/jtKYVLN.jpg
It’s even better now.

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Those wild spikes don’t give me a lot of confidence in the data

velox_vulnus,

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  • ShitOnABrick,
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    This makes alot of sense I’ll imagine the folk using Linux aren’t using it out of choice but out of necessity due to linux being kinder to older hardware

    morrowind,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    That explains the popularity of “unknown OS” but not why it swings so wildly

    XTornado,

    Uhm what’s re they using for this report… I would have assumed they would have gone with just taking the User Agent and similar which I guess that wouldn’t matter on the modifications you say.

    velox_vulnus,

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  • XTornado,

    Yeah sure but you usually fake a real existing one so it would go into one of the categories not the Unknown.

    kalleboo, (edited )

    The biggest spikes look like the correspond to new year. So my guess is that the spikes are vacations and show the difference between home PC and office PC usage.

    You can see the same spikes on e.g. Googles IPv6 chart - when people are away from work IPv6 penetration goes up, when people are at work it goes down.

    Sir_Simon_Spamalot,

    Damn, that’s a lot, and within a year too!

    Also, at least half of that ‘unknown’ is probably Linux too.

    hlqxz,

    Does it mean Android? Because India mostly uses Android.

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    Android is not a desktop OS.

    hlqxz,

    Yes, I didn’t read “Desktop OS”. Sorry about that.

    adam,
    @adam@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    These stats are desktop only

    jol,

    Android is not reported as Linux.

    WuTang,
    @WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

    Sure, as our European businesses - under management of big IT groups - are using indian’s sweatshop - that we have to train moreover!!! - for implementation and operational projects. I don’t say there’s not skilled indian, of course not, but they got a “shortcut”.

    West is full of cowards and traitors .

    uis,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    It is hard to say Linux holds market share because Linux is not a bitch to be sold, but it’s not hard to guess why people prefer it.

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    Indian here. There are a lot of Indians that love tech experimentation and “jugaad”, and just the mere act of dailying Linux allows us to step up our IT industry game for zero cost.

    christos,
    @christos@lemmy.world avatar

    Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2805164f-1f31-45b4-861a-c0acbda12a5e.png

    okamiueru, (edited )

    12% in Norway! At least last I checked when this same stat was posted.

    uis, (edited )
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    How much in Linuxland?

    Edit: 3.52% in Finland.

    skqweezy,

    Czech Republic is at 2.53%

    This is the birthplace of Red Hat Linux for god’s sake

    iloverocks,

    Greenland is at 12,51% idk why but it is so I guess

    uis,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    Statcounter reports 99% of Penguinland(Antarctica) uses OS X, which is obvious bullshit

    cyberwolfie,

    Rechecked this now, and it’s at about 5% now. The statistics seem a bit weird to me, unless there are some big seasonal changes. Your 12% was recorded in June and July. Maybe with less business activity during these months, the Windows share plummets in favor of home users who are more prone to use Linux.

    KarnaSubarna,
    @KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar

    To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂

    christos,
    @christos@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh my bad, I misunderstood the concept of percentage.

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    Percentage is not as easy or helpful to work with, when there are orders of magnitude difference between absolute numbers. It hides the absolute number difference for no other reason than unspoken lying of statistics.

    KarnaSubarna,
    @KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar

    To put it in right context (relying on Wiki data for year 2021):

    Current population of Greece: 10,482,487 (~10.5 Million)

    Current population of India: 1,210,854,977 (~1.2 Billion)

    christos,
    @christos@lemmy.world avatar

    Percentage, it’s percentage that is recorded, percentage.

    crispy_kilt,

    "India has more people per capita!"

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    Banana_man,

    Το επόμενο μεγάλο ΟΧΙ θα απευθύνεται στην Microsoft >:)

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    Anytime I see Greek or Hebrew, I feel like the Pillar Men are about to come for me.

    technohacker,
    @technohacker@programming.dev avatar

    As an Indian myself this makes me happy :D

    user224,
    @user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Beware that what OP posted is old data. India is over 14% on Linux as of October 2023.

    wopod77356,

    1000018735Indians

    TheOakTree,

    Hahaha they did a racism so funni

    wopod77356,

    Fuck off streetshitter

    TheOakTree,

    It must be hard to make your way through the world with a shatteringly low IQ. Unfortunately for you, one does not have to be Indian to object to racism… so we can confirm that your cognition is at rock bottom.

    I guess that would explain why you act like such a bottom-feeder, spewing so much garbage because that’s all you like to eat.

    This was fun to type, thanks for the opportunity! Go fuck a cactus :D

    moriquende,

    People will seriously believe anything just to feel superior. No wonder most people spewing bullshit like this are losers in dire need of feeling like they’re worth something.

    wopod77356,

    It’s facts

    mintycactus,
    @mintycactus@lemmy.world avatar

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  • Dogeek,

    My guess is click farms with some unknown custom made os that skew that data?

    That also might be a source of Linux users hence the relatively high market share of the OS?

    Not to mention that India still has a lot of call centers (some for scams) that may use Linux because it’s free (compared to a windows license)

    radioactiveradio,

    A lot of people who work in those call centres are uneducated and don’t know shit about tech, they’re only parroting off a script. In those call centres they use windows 7 still and don’t even know about the existence of linux. Also piracy is big in India so they don’t care if linux is free. And most of all their victims/“customers”(old people) don’t use linux so they have no reason to either. It’s just the fellow Indian nerds using Linux.

    Molecular0079,

    Yeah, if you look at some of those YouTube channels that scam the scammers, you’ll usually see that the scammers are all running Windows.

    radioactiveradio,

    I saw one where a guy used linux mint and the scammer used the usual tree command but other than that he knew fuck all what he was doing. He was tryna look for notepad. It was hilarious

    nossaquesapao,

    Statcounter works by collecting and processing user agent strings from browsers accessing sites that use their analytics. Unknows OSes are probably the ones who don’t give that info.

    30p87,

    Ofc, you would not want your own computer to have a virus, would you?

    Joke, I’m jealous of you and your Government. Germany is doing something, but not nearly enough to push Linux.

    Wispy2891,

    And from 2026 thanks to Microsoft it will raise more as I can’t possibly imagine everyone buying new computers just for windows 11

    Bene7rddso,

    Me neither, but what I can imagine is people running an unsupported OS forever, like they did with XP and probably 7

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    And 10 is extremely secure compared to the jungle that was XP, and 7 was barely doing well, so post EOL usage will remain high. Most people will just airgap their Win10 machines.

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