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

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Nixos is at 23.11 :) Also, rolling releases are kinda fun: the latest commit so far is 46ae0210ce163b3cba6c7da08840c1d63de9c701 which roughly translates to nixos-unstable 403509863565239228514588166489915404446713104129 :D

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You could take the revision number. nixos-unstable has 567011 commits currently.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Windows 98 enters the chat

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Windows 2000 says hi to Windows 98

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Windows Server 2022 kicks 2000 in the balls, does a line of coke, and crashes.

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[–] SpeakinTelnet 41 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Windows 98 has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Me with my Windows 2000 😏

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and to think windows had 2000 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Well, when you get from 3 to 2000 in only a few years, the vast majority of these versions will be unusable. No wonder they had to drop everything after 11...

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 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

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fedora 39
Manjaro 23
Ubuntu 23
Linux Mint 21
Debian 12

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I raise to you the current version of openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20240108! I think we've got the winner...

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago

This is why Bioshock Infinite is the best game ever made.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago (2 children)

well, 23 years ago this graph would have had windows 2000 WAY in the lead.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My version is 20240107. Apple has some catching up to do.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile, ChromeOS 120 is off the scale

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Shoud we tell her/him/... about Gnome 45?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean, technically Linux is still at 2.6, they've just been making up version numbers for the last 20 years or so.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

New versions of software are released because the older version was lacking in some way. Features, security, functionality.

Lowest number wins.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s why I only use TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Your system is defended by McAfee? That's cute. Mine is defended by the Lord God Jehovah.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use HAL 9000. Get up on my level.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

It's also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Aren't there meme communities where you could put this instead?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it Mac OS X 14? I.e., Mac OS 10.14?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Gentoo. I'd tell you the version number, but I'm still compiling.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Tips Fedora 39

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Smh my head

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

MacOS according to other metrics tho. ... https://xkcd.com/1056/

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