Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India.

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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.

Hopefully people in India are spreading the world of Linux. Blessed they be.

Is that why India has the best programmers?

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.

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

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Say the line bart!

This will be the year of the Linux desktop

I find the concept of 'market share' applied to FOSS projects quite confusing.

I am contributing to this number by installing Ubuntu Linux on my relatives old laptops.

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.

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

Content management doesn't affect usage numbers. I think it has to more with user agent switching

And 12% in Norway

You can identify OS without an adblocker it's usually in the user agent

Citation needed for "most Linux users use adblockers"

And they still refuse to use toilets