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Image shows a tweet with the header "and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH" with an image attached showing the following:

"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah all I see is 14 huge failures. :)

Linux version 6 is a bit of a stretch though since it's just the kernel. I guess they could have put Ubuntu 23 up there to make it "win"...

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fedora 39 is clearly superior to Ubuntu 23

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

I guess. I had lots of issues with Fedora in the past so can't recommend it personally but some people like it.