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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

12% in Norway! At least last I checked when this same stat was posted.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How much in Linuxland?

Edit: 3.52% in Finland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Czech Republic is at 2.53%

This is the birthplace of Red Hat Linux for god's sake

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Greenland is at 12,51% idk why but it is so I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Statcounter reports 99% of Penguinland(Antarctica) uses OS X, which is obvious bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Rechecked this now, and it's at about 5% now. The statistics seem a bit weird to me, unless there are some big seasonal changes. Your 12% was recorded in June and July. Maybe with less business activity during these months, the Windows share plummets in favor of home users who are more prone to use Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Το επόμενο μεγάλο ΟΧΙ θα απευθύνεται στην Microsoft >:)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh my bad, I misunderstood the concept of percentage.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To put it in right context (relying on Wiki data for year 2021):

Current population of Greece: 10,482,487 (~10.5 Million)

Current population of India: 1,210,854,977 (~1.2 Billion)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Percentage, it's percentage that is recorded, percentage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"India has more people per capita!"

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