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Devs love Linux (but prefer Windows)

The latest Stackoverflow survey results are in (you can see them all at https://bit.ly/lxf281stackoverflow). Over 80,000 developers from 181 countries participated in the survey earlier this year. The findings reveal how they work, including the apps and operating systems they rely on.

While Linux, for example, is a more popular operating system for developers than macOS, with 25.32 per cent of respondents using a Linux distro compared to 25.19 per cent , Windows continues to be the most popular by quite a margin, with 45.33 per cent of respondents primarily using that.

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Linux Format
October 2021
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