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For what I will call the area of or near Portland, Oregon, and the region of the Oregon and Washington.

Concerning free software:

Some high schools in my area use moodle.

Most colleges/universities in my area use Drupal, Wordpress, or Joomla. Also, over the last few years noticed a shift to jasig CAS and shiboleth ID for sso. And also, many new website projects I have implemented jquery and bootstrap.

Some colleges/universities computer labs have at least some kind of unix-like system alternative to Windows and OSX, though mainly only in the engineering/sciences. Ubuntu and Debian probably the most common.

Widespread use of vlc, GIMP, keepass2, and eclipse, even on windows/osx systems.

On the other hand:

Most colleges/universities in my region have outsourced all email to gmail. With that has come a massive shift to using other google softwares, particularly chrome and drive/docs.

Also, noticed a massive shift over the last several years to Windows web servers, along with Oracle (non-mysql) and MS-sql-server databases (which btw, not only have freedom issues, but turn into a pain to deal with!).

I have seen a massive shift to using Atlassian softwares and from irc to slack chat.

I see a divide between the math/art and the engineering/sciences, for examples: Most math labs in my area use Matlab instead of Octave. And also, most "art" labs still seem to focus on "PRO" softwares from proprietary suppliers, instead of GIMP or Inkscape.

Most people I know frown on Firefox maybe almost the way I frown on IE. Though I know a handful of non-tech people who call it "Internet Exploder".