Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India.
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.
Windows Activation Scripts are free 😉
...but not legal. Being poor doesn't necessarily mean you're inclined to break the law. Besides, Linux is useful if you perhaps want to later get a job in the tech field.
Is this real and safe? Why is Microsoft letting it be hosted on their own platform?
I looked at the code but the "single file version" is 10377 lines of Batch. They want me to do the power shell equivalent of curl abc.com | bash. The official website looks legit but I have no idea if this is safe or how they're doing it.
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.
People activate windows? Most of the pcs that i have seen using windows are not activated
The Government demonetised ₹1000 and ₹2000 banknotes a few years back as part of a campaign against "black money". The Government's thinking was that criminal organisations hoarded large amounts of cash in these large-denomination notes, and by forcing everyone to deposit the notes immediately into the bank, it would bring light to the flow of money.
It was not particularly successful and mostly all it did was lead to a week of chaos and long queues outside banks.
Hopefully people in India are spreading the world of Linux. Blessed they be.
I hear even the cows run Linux. They only peer into Windows from time to time.
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Is that why India has the best programmers?
nope. that's why India has a lot of sweatshops and our assholes of western managers exploit them.
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.
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?
Puzzling? Windows comes preinstalled or can be pirated. Also, it's popular, Linux isn't. No puzzle on sight.
Same as any other country, people use what’s preinstalled
However following that trend Chrome OS and Android have really boosted Linux’s numbers
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.
Two reasons, low income means no culture of paying for software, and easily corrupted government and administrations which companies like Microsoft have no problem taking advantage of to push their products to city halls, schools, hospitals, universities etc.
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 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.
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 read somewhere that was caused by linux-based botnet ddos or something like that. So windows share didnt drop but linux share significantly increased.
Maybe something with the hwid activation?
I do remember reading India declaring a switch for government computers a while back. So maybe that?
That would be a permanent increase /decrease.
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.
It's due to the nature of social interactions in India (more broadly, South Asia).
In most of our native languages, we don't directly address someone by their name, unless we've been acquainted before (sometimes even after, if it was just a formal acquaintance). We add a little something for politeness and respect. So it's always 'firstname'-ji or 'lastname'-ji, for example, in Hindi.
Since there isn't a direct carry over for this in English, people adopted sir or ma'am as replacement.
That's more or less it. It's about respect when interacting with someone else.
You'll notice that people who have been brought up in or are more familiar with western culture don't really do this.
EDIT: Unless ofcourse, your question was regarding the accent. In that case, most south asian written scripts lack certain soft tonal pronunciations of English alphabets, so most conversions result in hard sounding words, due to which you get the characteristic Indian (or again, more accurately, South Asian) accent.
Not sure about the colonial mindset or the caste practices of centuries but Indian culture is extremely hierarchial in almost all facets of life. Elders, seniors, higher officials, etc all expect to be respected even if it is just one year difference, etc.
One of the ways to show respect it to not use names and call as sir,madam, teacher, officer or at best elder brothers/sisters for college seniors. All this works well in the regional languages of India but sounds weird in English.
Directly calling names of elders is still seen as bad and if needed would use their name appended with sir madam uncle aunt etc.
This is less practiced in IT field in my experience. After years of schooling and college calling my teachers sir and maam it was hard to shake off the habit. A few of my managers had to remind me a bunch of times to call them by their name and not as sir / maam in the beginning. Even then I avoidedcallintg out their names and just started speaking to get their attention. Now I almost call everyone by name by default in office setting. It is still fun when freshers join and are asked to use names of 15+ year elders and them wondering if we are joking.
Just tossing a guess, would love for someone who actually knows to chime in though: in their language they're probably taught to refer to strangers with the respective word for "sir" as a formal construct, so they apply the same to English even though the culture is different, because they will probably be taught this way as sometimes happens, school teachers don't actually pass on the cultural uses/ways of talking of the countries where the language is spoken alongside the language itself, so it's easier to stick to plain translation in some cases
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.
What's confusing to you? If Linux has higher desktop use, wouldn't it bring more and better quality apps and games.
I would assume that “market share” is related to the relative number of units sold/number of active subscriptions/fraction of total sales in terms in revenue, or some similar metric. I run a variety of different distributions on servers (bare metal, VMs and containers) and desktop computers. Do they all count equally? Without giving it more thought, I wouldn’t even know how to determine the market share of Ubuntu in my own home in a sensible way.
With Windows, I can just count the number of active licenses. Oh wait, its zero.
For once, Redhat and Suse do have market share, because they are companies. Other distros not so much. Then the reliability of the numbers, since you can only guess it from downloads and useragents.
But that will also bring the problems that Linux is supposed to be safe from.
I am contributing to this number by installing Ubuntu Linux on my relatives old laptops.
Do Mint
Actually It is Lubuntu with LXDE.
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
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.
I think the assumption is not that adblockers alter the user agent info, but that they also block other resources, so StatCounter won't see those users at all, leading to under-reporting.
Ah. This makes sense! Thanks!
There are also other ways to fingerprint a derive based on how your cpu renders the html canvas.
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"
I feel like if you're techie enough to use Linux, then you'll figure out that ublock origin is a thing
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.
Come over to team Guix System, we have cookies 🍪
It sounds like avoiding cookies would be a part of that movement
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?
What's wrong with Cisco? I heard that it has a great culture and pay.
...because they just throw people at projects with no regard to skill set or level. Their business model is get contact, hire lots of tech grads, assign them to project, cross fingers. They've ended up with a reputation of not being able to execute, and they doing it by paying people at the start of their career the lowest amount they can. If you end up on one of these projects, and are actually capable, then everything gets heaped onto you.
Why are these companies the worst? It's a honest question since I actually don't know much about them.
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.
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.
How do you make money?
chatiya? chetiya? chitiya? chotiya? chutiya?
Why are you censoring yourself? I'm not sure that word means anything in English.