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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

indias growth is so important, it's such a dense country so growth will be rapidly exponential unlike 95℅ of other countries. it's the perfect mixing pot of technologically literate, dense, money conscious, and distrustful of western influence for linux to thrive in. once india is dominated by linux, it will expand outwards so fast.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Will the scammers finally stop telling me to go to the start menu to check if I have their virus?

[–] Nanabaz2@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you using gnome or kde madam? Are your programs show on the left or the bottom?

No no no, sudooo no sodooo madam

[–] sag@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

I hear this like I am saying this because I am Indian. Lmao

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

are you using i3, hyprland, sway, or dwm maam?

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Seriously, I'm impressed on just how much influence Linux has in India, not only as an OS, but as a community. I'm in charge of some of the Fedora social media accounts and it really impressed me at first how India is consistently one the top 3 countries our followers are from in all of them.