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

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      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:

    • notTheCat@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      If my guesses are correct, the major version number of Ubuntu marks the release year

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
    191·
    10 months ago

    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!

  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
    13·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      6·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Uncle@lemmy.ca
    121·
    10 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.socialEnglish
      15·
      10 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
      9·
      10 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.