Why are so many people racist against indians? This thread is a good example.
Indians are present in big numbers on reddit and other websites due to how populated India is, how english is popular there and that they aren’t contained in national platforms like their chinese neighbors. It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target. Just because they want someone to hate and laugh at to up their self-esteem.
Probably trolls looking for attention and engagement. But not being aware that their comments does hurt someone.
I’m a troll and i want my comments to hurt someone
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Reported this filth, just saying.
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No one asked you
Are you an adult?
Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:
12% in Norway! At least last I checked when this same stat was posted.
How much in Linuxland?
Edit: 3.52% in Finland.
Czech Republic is at 2.53%
This is the birthplace of Red Hat Linux for god’s sake
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.
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To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂
Oh my bad, I misunderstood the concept of percentage.
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.
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)
Percentage, it’s percentage that is recorded, percentage.
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.
UnkownOS is a great privacy operating system. If users dont know what they are doing, then how can the government?
As an Indian myself this makes me happy :D
Also consider the number of people in India. There is a massive Linux user base there.
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I don’t have to, you stink from just this comment.
Here’s what it looks like in Morocco:
Somehow we prefer using the Apple more than the Penguin.
Why is Chrome OS separate?
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.
Linux not GNU
separating just hurts the willingness to try Linux
Sad
Cool that they put FreeBSD in the list anyhow! I’m part of that 0.01% globally (though not in Morocco).
You’re the first person I know that uses FreeBSD.
You could be the second!!
Who knows?
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I wonder how many of them are using Kali Linux
That is impressive since the world share for Linux is something below 4%. So the uptake is over double of that of the rest of the world.
Makes sense, when I check new distro/apps videos on YT, something like 70% of them are made by Indian people.
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:
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.
Based india
netbsd is just chilling somewhere in the corner, left to rot alone :(
NetBSD’s license helps it get adoption, but much fewer public forks/natural contributors, so it’s gonna be pretty much impossible for it to catch up
And from 2026 thanks to Microsoft it will raise more as I can’t possibly imagine everyone buying new computers just for windows 11
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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)
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.
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.
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
