Thank you. The mystery is now solved for me.

To your first point, I don't know about other people but I generally assumed the numbers were mostly due to office deployments, whether government or private.

Your statements about most people not having a computer are also true in the United States. When I worked support for a smartphone manufacturer I encountered so many people who not only did not have a computer, they didn't have any internet service at all. They just use their phone for everything and rely heavily on the unlimited dataplans that are so ubiquitous nowadays. It didn't even seem to be an age-related decision as I spoke to both young folks and folks approaching retirement age who had made this decision. As an IT worker who grew up with techy parents, the concept is wild and outlandish to me, but it's the reality of how many people compute is they have no laptop or desktop, and may not even have Internet service

Sidenote: I met a couple folks from india in my last IT job and recently started work on a mineclone texture pack with a guy from - you guessed it - india. Its a lot of fun and I‘m sad we dont have more cultural exchange on lemmy. Like, what are the things we dont know as westerners, both good and bad? I feel like there’s a lot to learn here.

Thanks for reading me going off on a tangent. Have a nice day.

As someone from India, I agree with you.

I guess people just want to use what everyone else uses. Using something different than windows is instantly assumed to be very difficult.

I even showed my friends how they can play games on linux instead of having their laptops get stuck while using windows 11 , but they still won't even consider trying it.

Btw if you don't mind - do you play apex legends ? (Judging by your username)

I kind of get where you're coming from. Because you don't see people using it in your vicinity, it doesn't seem popular.

However, as others have pointed out, many many people get a computer just to browse and open a word processor. That would remove lots of windows and mac devices from the stats too. And if corporate devices weren't counted, that'd be a lot too.

Do you believe the majority of people even know what OS they're using?

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they just use their phone because pc hardware is expensive and phones prices are cheap.

Lol, this is so wrong and misleading. Like the whole post. Even for 350 dollars you could buy a used laptop which probably is more able to properly browse/word process than any of your smartphones.