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Somehow things seem similar (perhaps better) in Greece:
12% in Norway! At least last I checked when this same stat was posted.
How much in Linuxland?
Edit: 3.52% in Finland.
Czech Republic is at 2.53%
This is the birthplace of Red Hat Linux for god's sake
Greenland is at 12,51% idk why but it is so I guess
Statcounter reports 99% of Penguinland(Antarctica) uses OS X, which is obvious bullshit
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.
Το επόμενο μεγάλο ΟΧΙ θα απευθύνεται στην Microsoft >:)
Anytime I see Greek or Hebrew, I feel like the Pillar Men are about to come for me.
To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂
Oh my bad, I misunderstood the concept of percentage.
Percentage is not as easy or helpful to work with, when there are orders of magnitude difference between absolute numbers. It hides the absolute number difference for no other reason than unspoken lying of statistics.
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)
Percentage, it's percentage that is recorded, percentage.
"India has more people per capita!"