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India Still Leading the Way in GNU/Linux Adoption With Estimates of 16.1% Market Share

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2024

Even more with ChromeOS included.

This is today:

Desktop Operating System Market Share India

TODAY'S first video spoke about how in India it got simpler to get hardware with GNU/Linux (or without Windows) and, as a result of this, we're seeing trends like the above.

As one person put it 5 months ago: "Most PCs come with either bootleg Windows or no OS at all. Notebooks will come with some Windows 11 Single Language Edition - which is practically useless on a i3 - class CPU with 4GB of RAM. Most people in the West have no idea what a luxury personal computers are in many parts of South Asia and South East Asia. My late mom had to literally sell some of her jewellery to get me a 386-SX back in 1992. Most computers are getting cheaper especially the used ones from the West but won't run Windows 11. I am in South East Asia and have seen an uptake in Linux of late."

Another person said: "We [in India] have a huge population of students who are in college and studying CS, most of them start the journey with ubuntu, linux mint etc."

Remember that this site (Reddit) is heavily censored by Microsofters. It's sanitised to favour the sponsors.

Another comment:

Here is a basic formula for spreading Linux:

- install Linux on the computers of 3 people from your environment within a week,

- let these 3 people also do that to 3 others

After 5 months, almost half of the population will run on Linux.

This is why Microsoft is attacking adoption with E.E.E. (WSL):

As for someone who's currently in the final year of a CS-related course in India, I have 1 batchmate who uses Linux and he dual boots. I have been on Linux only life for some years thanks to having a AMD gpu and having no interest in FPS games with anti-cheat like Valorant or Fortnite.

Even in a CS course class, you can expect maybe 1 or 2 students to daily drive Linux out of a class of 75 students.

We're also taking hits from WSL since now students don't have to switch to Linux to try out development.

Of course WSL is Windows and an attack on the adoption of GNU/Linux. It's also how Microsoft and OEMs seek to somehow justify boot-locking new PCs so that they can only boot Windows. We'll publish a video about that soon.

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