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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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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You’re not wrong about their website, but it still only took 2 clicks to get that information. For reference, I can’t find it at all on Debian’s website without clicking download and looking at the version number in the filename. But you can get that in one click so I suppose they’re doing better.

Edit: Sorry, I was wrong, you can see it under the Microsoft Azure section after one click:

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now try to find Linux Mint's current version number on their website.

[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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On their home page? First thing you see?