just_another_person@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoLinux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounterwww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldlinux@lemmy.mllinux@programming.devlinux@lemmy.world
arrow-up1308arrow-down1external-linkLinux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounterwww.xda-developers.comjust_another_person@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square49linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldlinux@lemmy.mllinux@programming.devlinux@lemmy.world
minus-squarechronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoMacOS is very popular. Many places uses OSX as the name for macOS, which is stupid.
minus-squaresorghum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIt’s just a hold over from a previous time in Apple’s desktop naming scheme. System 6, 7, 8, 9, to (Mac) OS X and finally to macOS. OS X ran from 2001 till 2020 when big Sur released.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThat explanation would make sense if it didn’t show 21% OSX and 8.6% macOS
minus-squarebowsertattoo@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoso tons of people are still running really old macs i guess?
MacOS is very popular. Many places uses OSX as the name for macOS, which is stupid.
It’s just a hold over from a previous time in Apple’s desktop naming scheme. System 6, 7, 8, 9, to (Mac) OS X and finally to macOS. OS X ran from 2001 till 2020 when big Sur released.
That explanation would make sense if it didn’t show 21% OSX and 8.6% macOS
so tons of people are still running really old macs i guess?