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Linux Market Share by Country (lemmy.ca)
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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

China could potentially be explained by them not giving a fuck about software piracy -- at least in the 90s and early 2000s -- so money was never a motivation to move to Linux.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows costs about as much as a meal and the key lasts decades. Money was never the motivation.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

When I started doing stuff with computers, I was about 15 years away from my first paycheck. I very rarely paid for software, and when I did it was almost always a game.