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Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex... (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by 13617@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

this is what happened to windows 9, too.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 15 points 10 months ago

There wasn't a Windows 9 because a lot of (poorly) written software will do a system check for Windows version and if the first number is "9", it won't work and complain that you need to be using a Windows OS newer than Windows 9x (95/98).

It was just for backwards compatibility more than anything.

[–] juja@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What’s wrong with 9 though ? Didn’t iPhone also skip 9 ?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After the X/XS/XR phones they went to the 11. If the XS was 10 then the X would be 9. It is a bit weird for them to do 8 and 9 at the same time, though.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

but the X is a Roman numeral hence why Apple demands that OSX be pronounced as "OS ten"

(I have not heard anyone who is not an Apple employee call it that but it's the official stance, you can look it up)

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Dunno. But that’s a hardware model, ;)

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's a fun fact

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Slackware went from version 4 to 7 for a similar reason. But IIRC its reason was RedHat.