80% of computer usage is just a browser. you can swap in any OS, it does not matter for the end user.
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The same in Greece, where it has 11%, it's because some government agencies use it, and the whole of the Greek military is on Linux Mint!
Sidenote: I met a couple folks from india in my last IT job and recently started work on a mineclone texture pack with a guy from - you guessed it - india. Its a lot of fun and I‘m sad we dont have more cultural exchange on lemmy. Like, what are the things we dont know as westerners, both good and bad? I feel like there’s a lot to learn here.
Thanks for reading me going off on a tangent. Have a nice day.
To your first point, I don't know about other people but I generally assumed the numbers were mostly due to office deployments, whether government or private.
Your statements about most people not having a computer are also true in the United States. When I worked support for a smartphone manufacturer I encountered so many people who not only did not have a computer, they didn't have any internet service at all. They just use their phone for everything and rely heavily on the unlimited dataplans that are so ubiquitous nowadays. It didn't even seem to be an age-related decision as I spoke to both young folks and folks approaching retirement age who had made this decision. As an IT worker who grew up with techy parents, the concept is wild and outlandish to me, but it's the reality of how many people compute is they have no laptop or desktop, and may not even have Internet service
Thank you. The mystery is now solved for me.