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

  • Grangle1@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Lowest version number, lowest need for radical change to keep up to date. Golf rules. Linux wins. Somebody get Tux a green jacket.

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    This plot is so stupid it’s like comparing oranges to chairs. If they wanted to compare Kernels then compare Linux with XNU and Windows NT.

    Didn’t know XNU and Windows NT are hybrid kernels, interesting.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    8 months ago

    Wait until they discover that Windows Server 2022 exists. Also, Windows 2000.

  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    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?

  • Uncle@lemmy.ca
    0·
    8 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
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      8 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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      8 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.

    • dizzy@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      No they ditched OSX and yearly point updates in 2020 and went from Mac OSX 10.15.7 to MacOS 11.0

      The next yearly release was MacOS 12.

      It’s now up to 14.2.1