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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[–] boujeebagels 1 points (+1|-0)

I want to learn how to use Linux but I haven't figured out the proper way to teach myself how to use it

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

I can only tell you what I did, which is install a widely used distro and use it. Eventually something breaks or you want to do something different to it, so you google how to do that thing. After doing that a bunch of times I feel like I've gotten a pretty good handle on it.

The install for most distros is very simple, anyone can do it. When you google how to do something on the command line, pay attention to the instructions and try to understand what you're doing.

There are also online courses for Linux beginners, but I've never taken any of those so I can't speak to it.

What OS do you use?

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