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I don't see anyone here switching to linux on their personal pc other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux.
I think someone is pulling your leg. All the IT / engineering students I know use either a normal Linux distribution like Ubuntu, or Windows. Kali is for cybersecurity people and wannabe h4X0rs.
Microsoft is as ubiquitous as it is specifically because of decades long efforts to be the default in government offices around the world. So the Indian government using Linux definitely counts as a win.
Where's the truth in your claim? Whether the numbers are from ignorant office goers or eloquent nerds, it still counts
I get what you're trying to say but I work in a large healthcare organisation in the UK and our PCs run Windows. Most of the work across our organisation is done within a virtual machine window for our Electronic Patient Record; the local OS on the PC is largely irrelevant. The exception is that office is used for email and that causes a drag on moving away from Windows - people are used to using Outlook rather than just using a webmail or other tool.
Windows has that market share currently largely through inertia rather than going for the most cost effective option. The 15% in India with government and health sector use does count, it's quite an achievement to have successfully deployed a vendor neutral operating system for other tools to be deployed on to. Shame it's using Chrome though. In the UK Healthcare we're wasting huge sums licensing and maintaining Windows when we really shouldn't be.
The workflow actually works on any browser. Chrome is used because that icon is recognisable and IT guy can just say click on the chrome icon and people understand that.
80% of computer usage is just a browser. you can swap in any OS, it does not matter for the end user.
These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux
That's...not how inflating numbers works?
These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser
I mean, that goes for most people...
Every company I've ever worked for does all "work" in the browser. Because all the data is stored and managed in the cloud and you don't need each client to have a powerful PC, just the one powerful server.
That goes for consumers, too. Most people out here spending $2k on Apple Facebook machines. Very few people actually need any amount of power in their personal computer. Especially as cloud computing becomes more and more popular.
other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux.
Isn't Kali a pentesting distro? Strange choice.
Indeed. I know someone who bought the latest mac laptop. Very expensive, as they are. And all it's used for is browsing the internet.
And when I say that's all it's used for I mean it.
Truth be told, that battery life is sweeeeet. I hope by the time I need a personal laptop arm is more popular or Linux on M chips is fully matured.
I blew in Debian on my Microsoft Surface Pro4. It runs so much better and battery lasts longer too. It's the shitty 4GB ram version so it was freezing a lot on Windows. Way less on Debian