Linux reached 10% of the desktop operating system market in Greece!
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This is the year of the FreeBSD desktop.
10% linux is massive
let’s go aegean brothers 🤝🏻💪🏻💪🏻🤝🏻
One of the few things that makes me proud to be a modern Greek! :)
Greek FreeBSD users have ceased to exist.
Netcraft confirms it!
Be it for economic reasons, be it for any other reason this is really good news! Kudos to Greece and to all Greek people. My country, Italy, is still below 1% as of June 2023 according to statcounter so there’s still a lot of work to do! Seeing Linux as an option to bring back to life second hand or old hardware, preventing wastes and promoting circular economy is an idea I really like.
Is it the greek government using linux in gov computers or just hobbyists?
A lot of people have pretty old desktop computers and can’t upgrade. They start using linux instead of windows to get better performance
Hopefully they at least have ssd and 8gb ram.
From my experience it is mostly windows vista/7 era hardware that gets the linux treatment usually.
Because they don’t like paying the Microsoft “tax” 😏
Tax really is a good word for it. When you basically have a monopoly on or just act as gatekeeper to something and there is no market and no real competition the fee and profits you are making is basically taxation.
OSs kinda also act like natural monopolies because of software compatibility. People tend to gravitate towards the option that has most software support for ease of use. Windows should either be taken over by taken over by international bodies to be handled as global commons (of which I seen never happening) or it should be replaced with a open OS like Linux. Same could be said with social media, because it’s equally retarded to have the agoras used by the public as a profiteering tool for capitalists who abuse their power and leech from their monopoly, when the user base is the only thing that gives a platform any value.
Add digital identification and payment to that list. As society is going cash-less we’ve got to depend on privately owned proprietary software to do shopping, banking, taxes, to use public transport, and to access healthcare. There are a few different companies providing digital IDs here, but none of them have a client that runs on Linux. Their mobile apps require either an iPhone or Android with Google Play Services.
How about govt computers? Do they have Linux on them or what? 10% is pretty big 👌
Sadly, they still run windows… Wish that will change in the future…
Edit: mostly cracked versions of windows : ) (and the older the sector, the older the windows version (eg. xp))
seems god but i wonder how did linux become popular than osx on greece?
No money for Windows :P
Mac is just extremely pricey and very underwhelming for an everyday person. UwU
Probably bc Macs cost twenty times the average annual salary there
Twenty time ? 20x? I think Indonesian has already bad enough about 7-10 times of annual salary to buy Mac… yet greece condition seems worst…
I was being extremely facetious
What?
Yes!
I need to check the source though.
OP correct the spelling: Ελλάδα, not Ελάδα.
Βιασύνη αδερφέ! Σε ευχαριστώ.
I had noticed that we’ve been pretty high on global statistics for years, but hadn’t seen anyone point it out.
Και το βλέπεις και στη πράξη, οι linuxάδες δεν είναι σπάνιοι, και όταν μιλάς σε τεχνικούς/support δεν σε κοιτάνε σαν εξωγήινο αν ακούσουν για Linux.Does the greek keyboard layout offer a fast switch into latin letters? How does ‘Linux’ look like in greek letters?
As far as I know the greek keyboard layout is based on the US style alignment, with the characters swapped. The Greek alphabet has fewer characters than Latin after all. The standard quick way to change the input in Windows, and the one I’m using in Ubuntu is hitting Alt+Shift. Spelling Linux phonetically would be Λίνουξ.
is it counting android as linux?
if so, it shouldn’t be, imo. android is deployed and used differently than Linux and is not really the same in spirit. if you can’t have root, I’d not count it as Linux for the purposes of something like this.
It says Desktop Operating System, so I would assume not.
It says desktop in the image, I assume if it counted android it would be over 50% since apple is not as popular here.
More than twice that of OS X? Pretty impressive!
apple products are not popular outside of the north america.
You have clearly never been to Scandinavia.
i would not agree on that at alll
