Justin Garrison works at Amazon Web Services on the Kubernetes team (and was a senior systems engineer on several animated films).
This week it hit a new milestone for Linux in developer research StackOverflow 2022:
Among the developers surveyed, Linux as the primary operating system has been steadily rising over the past 5 years. 2018 to 2021 saw steady growth with 23.2 %, 25.6 %, 26.6 %, 25.3 %, and finally in 2022 the use of the operating system reached 40,23%. Linux usage was higher than macOS usage in 2021.
Their final stats for the “professional use” OS:
Windows: 48,82%
Linux-based: 39,89%
MacOs: 32,97%
But Garrison's blog post says the percentages don't include them millions of people who use Linux-based cloud development environments (like GitHub Workspace) — not to mention 15% of WSL users on Windows and all users of Docker (which uses a Linux VM).
"It's safe to say that more people use Linux as part of their development workflow than any other operating system."
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
