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Bit of a hot take, but I'm really hoping for china to go windows-free. Even if it's OrwellOS and sends ungoldy amounts of data to the government (pretty sure they already do that on windows too), just make it linux-based.
Compnaies would finally start taking linux in serious consideration to not being left out of the chinese market, we would start seeing laptops sold with linux and all the good stuff.
Yes! Having the worlds largest country run on Linux would do wonders for its adoption. If all the western business partners just stopped accepting windows files and started distributing Linux packages, it would accelerate adoption elsewhere.
Largest in what sense?
I was thinking population, and therefore users of the OS. I feel like a lot of western companies are already bending over to tap into the Chinese markets, so if they had to support Linux to do that for software, maybe they would.
GDP comes to mind.
There are other metrics as well surely, I wouldn't be surprised if China was amongst the biggest OS user markets as well.
If we'd be talking size as in territory, I doubt anyone cares what the Russian market does.
I'm surprised the CCP hasn't rolled out their own distro! It's 2023 what are they waiting for!?
This has actually been a long time coming. The first iteration was a FreeBSD-based distro back in 2013. Then an Ubuntu variant replaced it shortly after. The DE is UKUI, and it’s what « makes a Kylan » it seems. openKylin seems to be an all-around improvement over Ubuntu Kylin, and it uses APT as well. It looks pretty, but things still need some serious polish.