Interesting survey results. stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2 017

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>2016 desktop usage

Looks like Linux is getting more popular with developers. Meme magic is real /g/

Expect an influx of anti-linux shills and anti-linux memes.

https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-desktop-operating-system

2016:

>Windows: 52.2%
>Linux: 21.7%
>OS X: 26.2%

2017:

>Windows: 42% (-9.2%)
>Linux: 32.9% (+11.2%)
>OS X: 18.4% (-7.8%)

Pretty clear who the winner is.

>>59526661
>PHP more popular than C
ahahaha

>>59526696

>Looks like Linux is getting more popular with developers. Meme magic is real /g/

Yeah, this is the first thing I noticed too. Do you think the direction Apple is taking the macbook pro is creating some of this effect?

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>>59526696
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59526785

Thanks freedom man

>>59526696
After using Ubuntu after my entire life on Win 7 and XP (in a programming capacity at least) I can say that Linux is better than windows. That being said I hope the average consumer never switches because solving smaller problems is much easier to do on Windows.

>>59526785
>counter_interjection.txt