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submitted 1 year ago by geoma@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I know 100℅ of the world top 500 supercomputers use linux, and around 65℅ of world servers. I want more info like this to help me campaign towards GNU/Linux use. Thanks.

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[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago

I believe Germany is working on that. Recently they have started to migrate 30K systems or so from windows to Linux.

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's one region in Germany. The rest is not. Actually, a few in Germany tried moving to Linux in the past and gave up, unfortunately.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

More will follow with their EU data privacy laws violated by use of office365

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Brazil is trialing Linux right now too.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

LiMux, Munich already had perfectly fine systems running Linux but M$ corruption made them switch back

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Schleswig-Holstein in Germany seems to be switching to Linux and LibreOffice.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago
[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Microsoft uses a lot of Linux. Especially on Azure.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yep but 200% sure not Desktop Linux

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago

North Korea uses 100% Linux

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

No wonder my country won't let me travel there.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Finally some good news out of North Korea

[-] jaagruk@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Lot of health systems,government office,universities(mostly), defence (mostly) use Linux in my nation (🇮🇳)

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I would avoid government distros due to censorship and surveillance

[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Most governments use some sort of enterprise Linux distros, not their own distros. Even when they do, it's their distros. Why would they worry about censorship and surveillance?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

No, you need to worry about censorship and surveillance when using a government distro. Especially, when it comes to China or Turkey.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

On your own machine, sure. But I think OP was referring to government departments

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The government distros (BOSS and IT@School) are for government offices and schools, respectively. Also, both are open-source. Mostly they add better support for Indian languages, and some educational software.

[-] Markydraws@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 1 year ago

In brazil, in the city I live, computers in public schools have been using linux for as long as I remember until 2015 when I finished high school. They used a mix of ubuntu machines and a distro called Linux Educacional which was made in some brazilian university I can't remember. They used KDE Plasma, one of the reasons I still prefer it to this day.

[-] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The US’s Department of Defense is one of Red Hat’s biggest customers. Other than that, the US government theoretically uses Linux quite extensively, going as far as making significant contributions such as SELinux. It was mentioned already, but academia uses Linux a lot, too. I saw lots of machines at SLAC running CentOS 7.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 year ago
[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We're moving to Linux but still mostly use Windows.

Also, more people use uOS.

Edit: At least the public sector is greatly incentivizing it.

Edit: Somebody below said that 90% of the government used Linux, apparently? I wonder how much of that is servers and what's the relevant percentage for the US. I've only found that the US had 25% in 2001.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I would not trust any government made distro. Especially in China.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Russian military stated in the news they use AstraOS, some another fork. All other government institutions are too used to MS Word\Excel and the population in these places are usually aged conformists, so it won't change soon. Some schools experimented with Linux but for their budget it makes more sense to keep using outdated Windows PCs. With the whole culture built around formatting and reprinting, signing papers in closed formats that don't render the same even in different versions of Office, the whole generation should die off for some change. One exclusion - cloud editing in cooperation in Google is popular, but that's about it.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

To all the commenters here writing that Brazil is testing Linux. There was a recent post on Reddit which got linked on Lemmy. That (unknown ?) poster on Reddit wrote about a test on 800 computers for some part of Brazil, if all goes well, it's for 22k computers. https://lemmy.ml/post/14397254 Now try to guess or imagine how many inhabitants the whole of Brazil has that use computers :)

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

140 million? Am I close?

[-] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Original Reddit post (using an alternative front end) if anyone is interested.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

A huge amount of security camera NVRs run Linux, so that's something.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Linux from 10 years ago and you can't change it.

[-] christos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Shrexios@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] christos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have never tried it. But debian based + xfce, so you know what to expect.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The screenshot on Wikipedia showed GNOME with that Ubuntu like Panel.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

If im right brazil is trying out linux. A lot of people already use linux there because its free.

[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I believe in Greece, the military is using Mint.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It goes well with Lamb Kofta

[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Greeks don't eat lamb kofta. They eat gyros (which is shaved pork meat, not lamb ground, which is middle-eastern).

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

According to all the Greeks. Including myself.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You held a national poll, including yourself?

[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Please stop trolling. I'm Greek, I live in Greece, and that's how things are. Greeks don't eat lamb kofta or kebab, that's a middle eastern thing only. Greeks eat shaved pork, or shaved chicken. No beef or lamb ground meat in their fast food. They might look similar, but they're not. The West has this idea that Greeks eat kebab, because many Middle Eastern people have opened shops in Europe and US calling their shops "mediterranean" or even "Greek", while not being so. I've lived for 25 years in Germany, UK and US, and especially in the US, the only "Greek" souvlaki shops I could find in California were actually not Greek, they were kebab houses. Authentic greek souvlaki/pitas I found only in NY, and in 1 shop in Utah all these years. None in California (they were real Greek restaurants, but not souvlaki/pita places -- these are different, since they're street food).

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dude calm down. Nobody cares that much, and I'm sure you don't speak for every Greek person in the world.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think India? I don't have a source for this. It's something I think I remember reading on a forum.

[-] imAadesh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, All of India's govt system mostly run pirated Windows. The southern state of Kerala has switched to Linux though. Every 2-3 years or so, the central government announces switching to Linux and then forgets about it.

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