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It is quite successful apparently

Downloads from the Ubuntu Kylin community sites in China are continuing to gain momentum, with over three million people downloading Ubuntu Kylin in the first 12 months. The initial adoption of Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, launched in April, has been phenomenal, with over one million additional new downloads.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/05/15/huge-downloads-for-ub...




Just for perspective, 3 million users in China is the equivalent of about 700k users in the US.

It's not insignificant, but neither is it like every third Chinese person is running Kylin. Heck, even OSX has 20 million or so users in the US[0]

[0] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050510/windows-8-users-now-o...


There are larger villages than that in China. Still you can visit a computer market in China and about 40% of the computers will be displayed with Ubuntu. So the average Chinese consumer is getting exposure to Ubuntu which is a good thing.




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