I’m not sure how accurate StatCounter is, given that most Linux users use adblockers. However, according to it, Linux has almost a 14% desktop share in India.
That’s because even a grey market Windows key costs US$20 nowadays and that’s over ₹1,600. For comparison purposes, the largest Indian banknote is ₹500.
People activate windows? Most of the pcs that i have seen using windows are not activated
Do you have to pay for Windows still? I thought they made it free to download
While it is free to download it, the license still costs. Though they seem to let you use it unlicensed for an unlimited amount of time with some restrictions (like not being able to change the background image and an ever present watermark). At least this was true for windows 10. No telling if/when they will drop that feature though, especially if loads of people start using it unlicensed like that (though I doubt that has any effect on people using it that way or not).
Only for existing users+machines who are upgrading. New machines gotta pay up.
No largest note was ₹2000 but just recently it got banned maybe government likely going to launch new notes?
Was, but no longer is. It is officially discontinued, making the ₹500 note the largest for now. I would expect the Government to quickly launch a new large-denomination note. India is still a largely cash society and the largest note being worth 6 USD is surely going to be inconvenient for everyday citizens.
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I hope no one gets offended, but is there anyone who can explain why the indians say “Sir” like that? I mean, it’s so characteristic, I don’t criticize it, I’m just genuinely curious.
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Also have no idea why Windows share dropped so low in April 2023. Perhaps some Windows update caused them to be recognized as unknown device
I do remember reading India declaring a switch for government computers a while back. So maybe that?
That would be a permanent increase /decrease.
A lot of people are comparing windows to linux, but windows worldwide has only about 70% market share.
There are way less mac os and chrome os users than worldwide
Say the line bart!
This will be the year of the Linux desktop
Is that why India has the best programmers?
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Without India, the IT world is not going to run very well. ChatGPT is too trashy, it cannot replace the engineers pumped out of our college factories.
It’s a little puzzling to me that Linux isn’t popular in low-income countries. Why wouldn’t it be the OS of choice there? Do we need to become linux missionaries? I imagine it would be easier to convince people who can’t buy an iPhone to use FLOSS than those who can drive to an Apple Store and waddle over to get yet another one.
Same as any other country, people use what’s preinstalled
However following that trend Chrome OS and Android have really boosted Linux’s numbers
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Probably because it has to compete with piracy there, not with Microsoft and Adobe and such.
ironically enough i think microsoft (at least until very recently) has had a very lenient stance on piracy exactly because of this
piracy is the key to the consumer market in developing countries, consumer market is the key to enterprise (where the actual money lies)
I remember switching to linux because windows was shit and because I was afraid of getting caught using pirated warez. Is there no fear of that there?
If India is anything like my country (Brazil), corruption is rampant and enforcement outside business environments is pretty much non-existent, so, no, no one is afraid of piracy for domestic use. We used to have street vendors and booths on strip malls selling all kinds of warez on CD/DVD. The only reason they’re not around anymore is because internet speeds here are already good enough that downloading is easier. And no, no one will cut you connection because of it, our congress already approved laws saying that access to digital communication is a civic right.
Nice! So it’s pirate heaven in Brazil?
They don’t choose. Choice is something to make when people have enough time and resource. Instead they use what they are familiar with and have little time to grab and learn a new thing.
Free software comes with an implicit cost while pirated Windows doesn’t, ironically.Because poor people don’t want to spend time maintaining their os. Windows is maintenance free but everything in Linux requires a lot more steps that usually dive into the command line.
Windows maintenance free? Are you kidding?
I don’t think many people buy windows, laptops already comes with it and ones how can build a pc already know how to get windows for free, as far as iPhone goes, why would any one choose floss if they can’t afford iPhone? They usually choose Google services
They know little about open source. Microsoft is exclusively in schools and government, and that is what they grow up with. They probably know more about pirating Windows, than using Linux legally. There is also a good kick-back in terms of MS license mark-ups for middle-men businesses. One would hope there is some mandatory education around different OSs as I’m sure kids would love to explore and modify software.
It feels like those kinds of countries are perfect targets for linux and FLOSS.
Linux and FLOSS unfortunately don’t have budgets, and rely on logic and common sense. Microsoft has a big lobbying budget, gets in to see senior politicians and decision-makers, and then sponsors training, digital villages, etc. Yes, it costs a country overall much more than Linux, but it is easier for schools/gov depts and middle-men make some actual money in their pockets. That’s what Linux and FLOSS end up against. What would turn it around is having strong local businesses driving training and making tender bids to install and support Linux and FLOSS. A government or school wants to have it done for them. That’s the reality, unfortunately.
The sad reality indeed.
You can identify OS without an adblocker it’s usually in the user agent
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C is for Cognizant btw. But Cisco wouldn’t be too far off.
It’s a desi-fied version of WITCH, for those familiar with that term.
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Come over to team Guix System, we have cookies 🍪
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Hey, thank you for this comprehensive feedback! I’ve emailed the guix-devel mailing list to draw attention to your critique because I think it’s important.
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It sounds like avoiding cookies would be a part of that movement
ch*tiya is not sexist, it is a synonym for calling someone epic proportions of an idiot or buffoon.
chatiya? chetiya? chitiya? chotiya? chutiya?
Why are you censoring yourself? I’m not sure that word means anything in English.
Hindi. Hindi happens to be one of the top 5 spoken languages of the world.
That may be, but most Hindi speakers are quite concentrated in one area of the world and IIRC make up less than 10% of fediverse or something.
Many Indians simply type English on the internet, because foreigners cannot understand Hindi. However Indians among themselves often use Hindi, just like Chinese, Russians, those who speak Spanish, Esperanto or Portuguese (Brasil). That does not mean those languages have less speakers, they are just not visible on “western corporate” internet.
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Well, l*wda is also sexist and misandrist, and used just as often, and so are mixed slurs like bkl or mkl. Every culture has these kinds of slurs. And it will be decades before that changes in India, or any country, because “westernisation” will no longer gain cultural traction, as it is beginning to hurt many people brazenly.
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I don’t know much about this CHWTIA. But I do know someone who works at Capgemini, can you tell me why they are considered exploitative? Genuinly curious.
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Underpay and overwork their Indian workers like a motherfucker.
Return to office is mandated back to 5 days a week and 9 hours a day minimum at some of these places. The company makes bank but the workers get cents on a dollar.
We use TCS and Accenture at my work and I’m aware of us using Cognizant and HCL as well. You’re bang on fuck all those companies and also “first world” compankes for fucking the local employment market and fucking overseas workers.
Race to the bottom. Nothing matters but the bottom line.
Just curious what you opinion of Zoho is vs the ones you listed. Do they treat staff better?
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I’m not sure adblockers change the OS they report. Other tools I know for a fact do it.
Edit: However, as @aebletrae@hexbear.net mentions, adblockers don’t have to change what OS is reported to change the overall statistics. They explain how in a comment below.
There are also other ways to fingerprint a derive based on how your cpu renders the html canvas.
Citation needed for “most Linux users use adblockers”
I feel like if you’re techie enough to use Linux, then you’ll figure out that ublock origin is a thing
And 12% in Norway
