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India, Greenland, Greece and Turkey are the four countries with the fastest growth of Linux users. I've checked their neighbouring countries, and it looks like they are still in the 1-2% range.
India is the eye opener .... an enormous market of 1.5 billion people and the majority of them are too poor to pay for any specialty OS ... ~~it's going to turn into a futuristic dystopia down there ... people living in slums but scrounging up old neglected and forgotten hardware to bring them back online with Open Source Software.~~
Edit: I don't normally make big corrections or changes to my comments but after rereading this, I think I went a bit too far with my assumptions about another country and culture ... thanks @embed_me@programming.dev for putting it to my attention
Ok as an Indian allow me to interject. The reason people use linux is not because of poverty. Even the cheapest laptops come preloaded with activated windows.
We get introduced to Linux based OSs in schools. That plus people are heavily pushed into engineering and lately computer science and software engineering.
That sounds like a great education setup. Hope we mirror that in the west.