Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
You people be bringing Linux distro versions, which are indeed double digits, but the graph really be showing the Linux kernel version, not the distros. And Linux kernel version is indeed 6.7 at the time of writing this
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.
Linux desktop provides entertainment, countless hours of trying to get things running properly / a bearably usable operating system to end up with something that may work fine for your workflows unless you've to collaborate with others.
Windows provides ROI, get a cheap license and be up and running with all the professional software properly supported, easy to install and seamless collaboration with other professionals. Required daily use to work properly.
macOS is a "toaster OS", perfect for your weekend internet surfing activities, all polished, won't nag you much about anything and ready to work even if you don't use the computer for months.
Both macOS and Linux suffer from the same issue when it comes to software, people end up having to virtualize something they require but at least in macOS that's more rare and there's professional software like MS Office and Adobe apps for it :)