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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The population of India is irrelevant, the India Desktop PC market only accounts for approximately 13.9 million users total. Linux holds 15.64% in India, therefore 15.64% of 13.9 million is only approximately 2.17 million, which again does not account for the 12+ million increase of users.
The global desktop OS market is estimated to be 1.23 billion users total.
The Linux desktop OS market share is 4.3% of 1.23 billion which is approximately 49.3 million users. 1% of 1.23 billion is 12.3 million, therefore Linux grew 12.3 million in the last 8 months.
India only accounts for 2.17 million of the 49.3 million global total.
If Linux adoption grew to 16% in India that'd only be a 53.24 thousand increase.

Again, you have a complete lack of understanding of how percentages work.

Edit : actually I miss calculated because Linux is apparently 4.05% now, not 4.03%. that grew really fast.

[–] caustictrap@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yet we don't see the same growth in steam hardware survey (which is dominated by steamdeck). I wonder why.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

because it's based on a separate metric and uses a completely different method of gathering data.

[–] caustictrap@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whatever suits your narrative.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you genuinely retarded or something? You can't seriously be this inept.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It seems like they have some agenda or something. Maybe an MS Windows sector employee?

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Whatever suits your narrative

Makes it pretty clear. Whenever someone starts tossing around accusations like that and "fanboy" they are doing so because they don't have an argument to back their agenda with, so they resort to accusing you of doing the thing that they're literally doing themselves to deflect and derail the conversation.