I think schools and universities in Finland are giving out free computers with Linux installed for a few years now.
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What happens in Finland?
I can imagine Linus being from Finland is probably having some influence.
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Am I misremembering or did Finland begin migrating a large number of their government systems to linux/FOSS software?
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Santa switched OS for all the elf slave laborers
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This increase is too abrupt, I don't trust its accuracy
Statcounter data gets noisy for small countries. This is probably just a fluctuation.
However, Linux usage is up in Statcounter and also in Steam data. The overall trend is very positive.
Wow. Is this real? Kind of amazing if it is.
As usual with StatCounter: crappy data.
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Holy cow!!
IS IT HAPPENING?!?!
Is it finally actually happening?!?!?!
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I was going to suggest tech literacy levels as Finland is basically joint top in Europe joint with Netherlands. But while the Netherlands has above average Linux usage it's not close to Finland.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/netherlands/zawwjy8.tokyo
I have to admit. This is incredible.
That is unbelievable.
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Amazing, I hope this continues
Can we get it to 99?!
the perfect society
Do Fins use Linux in the summer and Windows in the autumn?
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I think there was probably some mistake. That's not reasonable, even with Win11 being pushed hard.
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