LINUX can be used on a large number of standard PCs ( we use it as an alternate boot OS on a laptop ), while the Mac OS is used only on PCs purchased from Apple.
The MacOS is currently at 10.9.x Mavericks. For LINUX there are a large number of GUI-based distributions which we will not discuss in depth, one of the most popular is Ubuntu. The two most popular alternate OS’s are LINUX, a modernized version of the old UNIX and the underlying host for most web servers, and the Macintosh OS, which also uses UNIX/LINUX as its underlying framework. However, it is possible to run RR-Track v5 using a different host operating system ( OS ). It is compatible with Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10. RR-Track is a Microsoft Windows application and as such, makes heavy use of of the Windows API. Using RR-Track v5 with non-Windows Operating Systems