• nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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      Statcounter works by collecting and processing user agent strings from browsers accessing sites that use their analytics. Unknows OSes are probably the ones who don’t give that info.

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      My guess is click farms with some unknown custom made os that skew that data?

      That also might be a source of Linux users hence the relatively high market share of the OS?

      Not to mention that India still has a lot of call centers (some for scams) that may use Linux because it’s free (compared to a windows license)

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        A lot of people who work in those call centres are uneducated and don’t know shit about tech, they’re only parroting off a script. In those call centres they use windows 7 still and don’t even know about the existence of linux. Also piracy is big in India so they don’t care if linux is free. And most of all their victims/“customers”(old people) don’t use linux so they have no reason to either. It’s just the fellow Indian nerds using Linux.