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Image shows a tweet with the header "and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH" with an image attached showing the following:

"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You people be bringing Linux distro versions, which are indeed double digits, but the graph really be showing the Linux kernel version, not the distros. And Linux kernel version is indeed 6.7 at the time of writing this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is how mac user do statistics?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is how people make jokes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

its not even funny?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

But number must go up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Lunix sucks so much that it got stuck into the version 2 for years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Mac OS is actually at version 23 (they restarted the count at 10).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This plot is so stupid it's like comparing oranges to chairs. If they wanted to compare Kernels then compare Linux with XNU and Windows NT.

Didn't know XNU and Windows NT are hybrid kernels, interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How big is your PC?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

and that green is very tacky

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