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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
That's the only world where apple is ahead 😂
I will say that in 2021 the M1 Mac mini was probably bang for buck the best computer you could get. Granted, that was mostly because GPUs were insanely expensive/inflated. But I was pretty impressed at the price points for those machines at the time. My buddy nabbed a refurbished M1 a few months after launch with 16gb ram/1TB SSD for $950 IIRC. He brings it to set for DIT/assistant editing work, still going strong entering 2024
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.
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.
Windows will reach 12 this year. Double score!
macOS still trying to figure it out with attempt #14
It took Microsoft 98 attempts the first time! Then it took them an entire Millennium. Then 2000 attempts after that. And then after 12 more attempts, they've decided they need to change the keyboard... I'd say #14 ain't too bad.
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.
I recall at one point Windows 10 was going to be the last version of the OS and they would just maintain that. I'm wondering if they said that to get the last of the Windows 7 and XP users to finally move to 10?
ahem I use arch btw
freebsd is 14 something too
If people really get triggered by this bullshit graph, let's add Arch Linux which is on what? >200? >300?
hey. Nobara 39
who the fuck made this horrible graphic? when will people realize that grossly redundant features that also complicate interpretation (such as trying to make a bar plot 3d) is absolutely one of the worst things you can do.
Wooosh
Wait until they discover that Windows Server 2022 exists. Also, Windows 2000.
This posted on X? I see no "superiority" here.
ChromeOS hit version 119 in December. That one is obviously the best.
This community has such a bias against web apps.
@dataisugly material
Pffff. You losers actually think Linux is better? IBM OS/2 FTW FUCKAHS. 😎
(/s obv)
Linux just moved out of 5.x.x hell. Well catch up soon