I was at a Usenix conference in 2002 and then 2003... what I could see then is that the percentage of Linux laptops vs PowerBooks flipped in pretty much one year.
In '02 it was about 50% there using windows, 40% some kind of Linux (some of it on Apple hardware) and 10% Mac OSX.
In '03 I'd have said it was about the same for Windows, but 30% Macs with Mac OSX and the remaining 20% Linux.
That trend seems to have mostly continued.
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> On Jan 9, 2017, at 16:18, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <carl.soderstrom at real-time.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/09 04:04 , Mike Miller wrote:
>> I hope plenty of new people are getting into using Linux but I'm not really
>> sure what the data show. It seems like Macs with their OS X unix really
>> took off, but did that cut into the Linux user base?
>
> I suspect it did.
> Anecdotally, here at Real Time Enterprises, we've been using OSX on the
> desktops for many many years. We do much the same things with them we did on
> Linux - run terminal windows and a web browser - but there are some helpful
> bits of the OSX software ecosystem as well such as 1Password for managing
> passwords, and Slack for communication.
>
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> Carl Soderstrom
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> Real-Time Enterprises
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