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“Operating systems by current version” Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

    • flyos@jlai.lu
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      11 months ago

      I raise to you the current version of openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20240108! I think we’ve got the winner…

  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      11 months ago

      The version number will be incremented when Linus says so. He might even increment it to 7.x tomorrow if he feels like it.

  • Uncle@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    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!

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      11 months ago

      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

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      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.