KapedLinux Desktop share keeps increasing, 3.13% now.
I would like to see a breakdown of useage by region. For example I found stats that said India’s share of linux users rose from 9% in May to 15% in July. That’s quite a sharp increase in only 2 months! With a population of over 1 billion people, I’m betting this rise would have a significant increase in global stats, so I wonder what is behind it…
India is introducing a Data Protection Bill (based on the GDPR, but with controversial exemptions for the government itself), so companies could be restructuring their IT systems. As to why India is high in general, our government has had a policy of encouraging free software for quite some time. Most schools and many government offices use either Ubuntu or BOSS (Debian with improved support for Indian languages).
Good News! Indian State Aims to Save Over $400 Million by Choosing Linux
Schools in Ithe ndian state of Kerala are expected to save ₹3000 crore (roughly $428 million) by choosing Linux as their operating system for school computers under a state-wide project. The Southern Indian state of Kerala is known for its beautiful backwaters. Kerala is also known for its education policy.
That’s amazing.
Here in Brazil, we had the government encouraging free software in the 2000s, but the projects and policies were all abandoned.
And to think we could have a similar adoption to yours today… sigh…
Back then, people didn’t understand how such projects give benefits in a long timeframe, and wanted immediate results, something impossible.
To be fair, I think the main reasons they support FOSS are (a) saving on licence fees and (b) not being dependent on a foreign company, which can be forced to stop supporting our infrastructure if we piss off the US / China.
But still good reasons, anyway.