August 2022
Old data, man.
It's even better now.
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Why are so many people racist against indians? This thread is a good example.
I'm an instance admin and see heaps of the same stuff being posted. Pretty sure it's one lonely troll not lots of people. Even in this thread, it's all one user account not lots of different people, but we see the same stuff posted across lots of brand new accounts in a very similar way.
Well, up to 2 people now. But yeah, I get your point. Some people just suck
Makes sense. Even then a lot of the troll's comments are upvoted by a few people. There are definitely a few people here who share the troll's extreme opinions. Thanks for doing your part in removing all these bullshit. I wish lemmy had a way to block account creation by IP addresses. That might stop trolls from making dozens of alt accounts.
We very often see the same username created across many instances, it's very easy to do and Lemmy has no protections against it. Plus, there are no protections against creating multiple accounts to upvote your own posts (don't get any ideas 😆). IP blocks wouldn't work as instances are entirely independent, so there is no sharing of IP info across different instances.
Currently there is at least some level of coordination across instances, though, such as Lemmy.world's Defense HQ, where instance admins can share info about spammers/trolls so we don't have to wait for a report from one of our own users. There's also Fediseer, but this protects against spam instances not spam accounts on mainstream instances.
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Indians are present in big numbers on reddit and other websites due to how populated India is, how english is popular there and that they aren't contained in national platforms like their chinese neighbors. It makes them noticeable for bigots to single them out and target. Just because they want someone to hate and laugh at to up their self-esteem.
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I think it's due to the stereotypes and the bad experiences, I've had pretty bad experiences with indians in gaming (racist, annoying, begging) and work (incompetent, corrupt, etc), but I've also seen that from other people with different backgrounds, more importantly though is that I've also seen some amazing tutorials in YouTube from Indian peeps and I've also found some great repos from Indian devs as well.
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Glad that there are govt. level systems who make use of Linux (mostly ubuntu ) systems here. For eg. , in kerala, all govt schools and colleges use linux for computer labs and academic activities, i guess the local body administration too use ubuntu.
Only wish we could convince those private sector schools of the money they'll save converting those slow windows systems to linux.
Problem with private schools is most likely the training investment required. They can't as easily replace IT team and/or CS teachers with those who can handle Linux
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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.
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Indian here. There are a lot of Indians that love tech experimentation and "jugaad", and just the mere act of dailying Linux allows us to step up our IT industry game for zero cost.
UnkownOS is a great privacy operating system. If users dont know what they are doing, then how can the government?
As an Indian myself this makes me happy :D
Beware that what OP posted is old data. India is over 14% on Linux as of October 2023.
Also consider the number of people in India. There is a massive Linux user base there.
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Here's what it looks like in Morocco:
Somehow we prefer using the Apple more than the Penguin.
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In Canada, Apple is taking most of the increase, I wish Linux was more prevalent but I'm happy to see the downward slope for Windows:
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I wonder how many of them are using Kali Linux
That is impressive since the world share for Linux is something below 4%. So the uptake is over double of that of the rest of the world.
Makes sense, when I check new distro/apps videos on YT, something like 70% of them are made by Indian people.
Based india
And from 2026 thanks to Microsoft it will raise more as I can’t possibly imagine everyone buying new computers just for windows 11
Me neither, but what I can imagine is people running an unsupported OS forever, like they did with XP and probably 7
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netbsd is just chilling somewhere in the corner, left to rot alone :(
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It is hard to say Linux holds market share because Linux is not a bitch to be sold, but it's not hard to guess why people prefer it.
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