What OS do you use?

posted by InnocentBystander on AskPhuks

I was looking through my server logs, and I noticed that Linux was represented far more than Mac os. That surprised me since I thought Mac still had a larger market share. I googled it and found that it does.
But not on my site.
So it got me thinking. The market share estimates are probably based on all existing computers, and would be slanted by commercial use. If I could find numbers for market share of home systems only, I wonder if it would be different.

Over the last month on my site, the ratio has been 50-5-1 win/linux/mac.

Is it just that users of my site are smarter than average, or is linux starting to pass mac in personal use?

I was looking through my server logs, and I noticed that Linux was represented far more than Mac os. That surprised me since I thought Mac still had a larger market share. I googled it and found that it does. But not on my site. So it got me thinking. The market share estimates are probably based on all existing computers, and would be slanted by commercial use. If I could find numbers for market share of home systems only, I wonder if it would be different. Over the last month on my site, the ratio has been 50-5-1 win/linux/mac. Is it just that users of my site are smarter than average, or is linux starting to pass mac in personal use?

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[–] ashekchum 0 points (+0|-0)

It's Linux mint but built on Debian instead of Ubuntu. I'm personally not a fan of Ubuntu so I like it better.

[–] mamwad 0 points (+0|-0)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't many of the packages on debian older than the ones that ship with Ubuntu? I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, either, but I think its package base is both reasonably stable and reasonably up to date (but by no means bleeding edge).

I also like to use ppa's to get newer versions of programs like kdenlive because they are being developed at a rapid rate.

[–] ashekchum 0 points (+0|-0)

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It's usually a bit older but they do update it occasionally, I think it's more like a slow release stable build. It's part of the reason why I want to switch again.

If you want an up to date and sucure Debian based build therelationships is none better than tails.

What OS do you use?

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