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
Shoud we tell her/him/… about Gnome 45?
Windows 95
Windows 2000
This checks out, because Windows 2000 is the best Windows!
ahem I use arch btw
Pffff. You losers actually think Linux is better? IBM OS/2 FTW FUCKAHS. 😎
^/s obv^
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…
@dataisugly material
Windows will reach 12 this year. Double score!
Xbox OS is clearly winning with the 360
But they went back to one so idk anymore
hey. Nobara 39
We don’t have a consistent convention as to what changes qualify for a version increment rather than update increment. A new kernel? A new interface convention? New icons for the mini-apps?
Windows 10 has more plug-and-play drivers than Win7 and Win8. It can recognize newer hardware and it can be installed natively from thumb drives. So a lot of features that were third party are now offical… long after I had access to the third-party libraries.
But then it combines the metro and the start menu. I never found a use for the metro.
Win11 is less operability and more DRM and more spyware.
For Apple and Microsoft, a new version is a new marketing season. It’s the same as the new iPhone, the new Subaru.
I assume Linux builds increment with significant operability additions, especially if they’re not fully backwards compatible. Since they’re released without charge the capacity to do more stuff is the only reason to upgrade to a new increment rather than preserving a stable version.
The version number will be incremented when Linus says so. He might even increment it to 7.x tomorrow if he feels like it.
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!
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.
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
Lunix sucks so much that it got stuck into the version 2 for years.
It’s also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem
Aren’t there meme communities where you could put this instead?
freebsd is 14 something too
