Scott Dorsey wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
dave wrote

The fastest computers on the planet run Linux. It is the most popular OS
on the planet (or soon will be). If there is a task there is an
application for it.

This _is_ pretty much true. Now, admittedly Linux isn't just one OS, it's
a whole family of different distributions, so calling it the most popular OS
on the planet is kind of stretching things.

Such outrageous claims. If you managed websites and looked at the
server logs you would see that Windows is well ahead of anything else.

This was true a few years ago, in that the majority of people surfing websites
from end-user desktops were using Windows systems. End-user desktops are not
the only computers out there, though. And these days, if you look at your
server logs, you'll find the majority of people surfing websites are doing
it from tablets and cellphones and other mobile devices.

One company told me their customers all used Macs since they were
artists. They were shocked to find they accounted for under 10% of
their page visits, and All versions of Linux were barely over 10%.

Could well be. Could also be there were a lot of people on Macs who had
set their user agent in the browser to identify themselves as using IE on
a Windows machine because that's the only way they could get a lot of
websites to work. A few years ago that was a common activity, but thankfully
the need for that has disappeared.


The logs showed the operating system separate from the browser in
use. Some were even using Sun workstations with Solaris.


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