2026-10-27 07:08 UTC
Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.
This ruffles my feathers. Disregarding servers where Linux has near monopoly, surely Linux is installed on more devices and has more users than OSX? OP is clearly counting only desktop users
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@Kajika@lemmy.ml 2026-10-27 07:10
Same here, also all embedded system on linux + smartphone. I guess the author meant desktop usage. Still I am very unsure about the world at large. This is north-American take.
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@ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2026-10-27 07:22
alternative reality where macos is the backbone of servers worldwide eurhghghrugr
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@wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-27 09:43
I agree. Linux on desktop is so good for at least five years, if not longer, maybe ten. That I imagine many people using it, can recommend it to others, and so forth. And so in absolute numbers, it would be much more than macOS gets.
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@provectus@lemmy.ml 2026-10-27 23:14
Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX. Linux is not really a descendant of Unix. It is a Unix clone, but its roots do not trace back to Unix.