Linux reached 10% of the desktop operating system market in Greece!

  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    How about govt computers? Do they have Linux on them or what? 10% is pretty big 👌

    • wallmenis@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      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))

    • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I think they are present in some school computer labs in a server and full/thin client combination.

  • MetaPhrastes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • wallmenis@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      A lot of people have pretty old desktop computers and can’t upgrade. They start using linux instead of windows to get better performance

      • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • ffhein@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • walderan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Nuuskis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Does the greek keyboard layout offer a fast switch into latin letters? How does ‘Linux’ look like in greek letters?

      • walderan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • kittyrunningnoise@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • christos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    What?

    Yes!

    I need to check the source though.

    OP correct the spelling: Ελλάδα, not Ελάδα.

    • wallmenis@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      It seems you translated it. 😅 Well it is a saying… When someone is excited or proud of someone/something. I don’t know the specifics (even though I am a native). So please, if anyone else wants to explain, feel free to do so…

      • MetaPhrastes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m not a native but I can try to explain. Greek has two forms of expressing possession: the first is simply the genitive of the personal pronoun (in this case μου is the genitive of the first person singular pronoun εγώ). When expressing possession in this way it always follows the noun it refers to whereas the article comes before e.g. “my house” > “το σπίτι μου” and they are invariable. (Note that in English possessives are determiners and can not co-exist with articles it’s either one or the other, in Greek this is not the case). The second form is in combination with “δικός” and these behave more like adjectives and must agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to “my house” > “το δικό μου σπίτι” vs “my houses” > “τα δικά μου σπίτια”.