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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6
I like macOS but this is stupid
Not if we're going by golf scoring it's not
Pfff my systemd is version 255.2-2, I am lightyears ahead.
Fedora 39 anyone?
Shit takes like 30 minutes to update 😭😭
takes 2-3 min for me
Shoud we tell her/him/... about Gnome 45?
Windows 95
Windows 2000
Just use 'them' like a normal person
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!
This has got to be satire, right? You posted this ironically. I don’t believe for a moment anyone could be this dense on accident.
Yes. It's a joke. It's pretty funny, IMO. I'm not sure how you could interpret it as anything else. The wording alone makes it pretty obvious.
Are we sure this isn't satire?
…no? It obviously is
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.
Are those just made up numbers by some apple fanboy? How does an OS that's in pretty much everything not have a larger stake?
It's kind of baffling to me how so many people on here don't get the most obvious of joke / satire…
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.
I mean current version really doesn't mean anything because people aren't going to upgrade if the version they're using is fine. I submit that this is a perfect example of correlation != causation. I may have gotten the order wrong on the not equal symbology since I haven't used it in a while.
Also, are we talking Linux kernal versions? There are so many problems with this comparison.
This is why Bioshock Infinite is the best game ever made.
Seriously?!?
No, this is clearly a joke.
My version is 20240107. Apple has some catching up to do.
Technically version 5.0
I'm going to invoke Poe's Law and not assume this is sarcasm.
Is that that thing where someone says something wrong to get the right answer explained to them?
No, that's the thing where somebody Googles the result and gets the right answer.
Fedora 39
Manjaro 23
Ubuntu 23
Linux Mint 21
Debian 12
This, but unironically used as a marketing trick:
There was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison "knew no one would want to buy version 1"
That's why the first Oracle database is v2.
this is what happened to windows 9, too.
No, the problem with Windows 9 is that a lot of things compared the version with 9* as a catch all for windows 95 and 98, so they were worried with backwards compatibility.
I use HAL 9000. Get up on my level.
I remain unimpressed.
New versions of software are released because the older version was lacking in some way. Features, security, functionality.
Lowest number wins.
That’s why I only use TempleOS
Your system is defended by McAfee? That's cute. Mine is defended by the Lord God Jehovah.
I use Mint 21. Checkmate.
This is a rare case where it matters that Linux is not an operating system.
Windows 98 has entered the chat.
Me with my Windows 2000 😏
They really went downhill after that.
Fedora 39
Nixos is at 23.11 :) Also, rolling releases are kinda fun: the latest commit so far is 46ae0210ce163b3cba6c7da08840c1d63de9c701 which roughly translates to nixos-unstable 403509863565239228514588166489915404446713104129 :D
Laughs in Fedora 39
Windows 98 enters the chat
Windows 2000 says hi to Windows 98
Windows Server 2022 kicks 2000 in the balls, does a line of coke, and crashes.
You could take the revision number. nixos-unstable has 567011 commits currently.
and to think windows had 2000 years ago...