According to StatCounter, in September 2014, Linux usage in Malta was 1 percent. By October, usage was over 4 percent. There was a peak after Christmas and current numbers are around 5 percent.
Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson has charted the numbers. He says:
Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory. Notice the ascendance of GNU/Linux in the same week that school started that year. The peak usage was on Thursday, 2015-Jan-8 at 6.83% a day or two after the Christmas break ended. Even use on weekends showed dramatic growth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:58PM
Last month, Pogson noted that there are 10 places where Linux usage is over 4 percent. [mrpogson.com]
Uruguay, Venezuela, and Cuba (places trying to get away from USAian hegemony) are on that list.
Reunion (an island nation, east of Madagascar) is another.
Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), another island nation that was murderously oppressed by Indonesia[1] leads the pack at over 16 percent.
[1] Indonesia, in turn, was the site of a USA-funded purge of anti-Capitalists in 1965-1966 which killed millions. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [transcend.org]
USA hegemony is still very much in evidence there.
-- gewg_