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15.21% in India πΏ
Not surprising considering just how much India is running on old hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if a big chunk of laptops there don't even support win11.
That is surprising perhaps govts push for adoption in Kerala and elsewhere is the reason.
Kerala?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-slowly-dumping-windows-for-linux/
An article from 2007 about Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Wow, OK. I half expected a linux distro called Kerala. Hopefully this stance spreads!
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did you just creative commons kerala? is that even how that works. i cant just run a pc program to creative commons every possible phrase
That's how licenses work. They protect every single word and if somebody uses that word henceforth, they breach the license.
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Yup
I saw lot of folks in college switch to Linux, especially Ubuntu back in the day. It was considered synonymous with coding here. There was a time I could recognize that Ubuntu's Unity DE from anywhere before it was killed(and resurrected again recently).
Unity was my first desktop, around the 2010s. Around 2020, I came back to Linux with the intention to ditch Windows forever.
I switched completely to Linux somewhere around 2016, I guess. I gave Windows 11 a spin recently but it didn't leave too good of an impression.
how do you check indovidual countries?
You just have to scroll down. Over there, you'll see the countries parameters.