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by jot 5428 days ago
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago.

I'm interested to know what the proportions of OSes are today.
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akent 5428 days ago
Results of a HN poll from a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726

Total responses: 1539 Linux: 564 (36.65%) Mac: 557 (36.19%) Windows: 365 (23.72%) Other: 53 (3.44%)

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officemonkey 5428 days ago
Polls can be aspirational. I'd rely more on the server logs say.
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bostonpete 5428 days ago
Well, I would have answered Linux on that poll, because I use it as my primary work environment. But I almost exclusively use Windows for web browsing. Maybe I'm atypical though.
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officemonkey 5427 days ago
Not really. I do most of my HackerNews surfing at home on OS X, but I spend most of my workday on Windows.
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robgough 5428 days ago
me too.

I just spent the weekend at a hack day (http://leedshack.com) in the UK, with over 100 hackers. I barely saw any windows machines, almost everyone had a Mac.

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rickmb 5428 days ago
I've noticed that the percentage of Macs in the same group is higher at events than it is online or inside companies.

One could speculate about the reasons, but I do know that seeing hackers I respect with pretty shiny Apple laptops is what triggered me to buy my first Mac back in 2002.

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