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

  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    9 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.

  • gerdesj@lemmy.ml
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    9 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!

  • HRDS_654@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    9 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.