https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607
Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.
The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?
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I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.
Yes, that means "Mac OS X 10.0" had two tens right after one another. Apple aren't Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.
Also, it wasn't introduced as OS X. It was "Mac OS X" until 10.7, then "OS X" until 10.11, and "macOS" since then.
True, but the X is not part of the version number, it's part of the name. The name of the OS was OS 10. Where the X is meant to be pronounced 10.
The version number comes after. Obviously OS/2 also had version numbers, but the 2 was not part of the version number.