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Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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I think we are looking in the wrong direction. China is the place to watch for an explosive growth of Linux and the exclusion of M$-Mossad. They have committed to replacing Windoze on all government computers and servers with KylinOS by 2026. This is not a city here and a city there, but the entire country. PC and Laptop makers will then offer units with openKylinOS. Not sure if phones will follow suit, or switch to Harmony Next.
I will believe it when I see it for China. They will probably just keep pirating Windows.
India is at something like 15% Linux though and probably going up.
The government is closing in on replacing all government PCs. https://techhq.com/news/open-source-china-linux-kylin-kernel-desktop-de-microsoft/