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
Technically version 5.0
This is why Bioshock Infinite is the best game ever made.
My version is 20240107. Apple has some catching up to do.
Bro, is the apple os from the year 14 💀💀💀(THREE whole skull emojis for added emphasis)
Imagine someone thinking 07012024 would be a better scheme 😂
Shoud we tell her/him/… about Gnome 45?
Windows 95
Windows 2000
This checks out, because Windows 2000 is the best Windows!
Hey! It was Windows Me. Closely followed by Vista.
Just use ‘them’ like a normal person
Fedora 39
Manjaro 23
Ubuntu 23
Linux Mint 21
Debian 12I raise to you the current version of openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20240108! I think we’ve got the winner…
Factorial included?
Aren’t there meme communities where you could put this instead?
The Linux Kernel version is at 6 point something, I think they’re working on version 7. That’s not the OS though, the current Ubuntu version under LTS is 22.04. That’s more than twice as much as Windows.
Note I had to get this information from Wikipedia because Ubuntu’s website is currently unusable corporate garbagepuke.
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:
Now try to find Linux Mint’s current version number on their website.
On their home page? First thing you see?
Exactly.
If my guesses are correct, the major version number of Ubuntu marks the release year
Correct; the minor number is also the month. Which is why they’re almost always .04 or .10; the LTS version is always released in April, with non-LTS releases that serve a similar purpose to Debian Unstable (newer package base at the possible expense of more bugs) are released in October. They also have a convoluted codename system, as many point release distros do.
Only the April releases in even years are LTS
It’s also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem
Fedora 39 anyone?
Shit takes like 30 minutes to update 😭😭
takes 2-3 min for me
My phone is on 23. Nextcloud is on 27.
I’m Arch and so is my wife (actually) and it doesn’t have a version. We just roll … and today my dongled, wireless mouse has stopped moving. The buttons still work and my laptop touchpad works fine.
wtf!
They make a pill for that…
Smh my head
non ironically, firefox did a jump in version numbers after firefox 4 because people were seeing the low number compared to other browsers, and would think they were behind technically.
While true & I remember folks actually using this in arguments for ‘slow development’, there is some merit to versioning differently for something expected to get minor updates to perpetually follow latest specs such. I can’t imagine trying to discern what a “breaking change” would be in this context. Or would you make a new version for every visual redesign? Dates might have just made more sense, but maybe ESR is easier to follow with the current scheme.
One of those bigger numbers is better herd instincts
but wouldnt lower numbers mean no one needed to fix & revamp a working OS?
higher numbers mean more fuckups than needed to be fixed until it was so broken there was no longer a way to code you way out, had to start right from the start!
no it just means the OS is abandoned obviously, don’t you know that any library with no commits in the last 20 minutes is not worth using /s
It really depends on what versioning means for the project. If we are talking about semantic versioning then a lower number only means there haven’t been many breaking changes over time. Or that a lot of broken stuff has been kept that way because it would break compatibility.
Wait until they discover that Windows Server 2022 exists. Also, Windows 2000.
freebsd is 14 something too
