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    Mac OS: Cat, Dog, Cow, Panther, Some California park, your uncles house

    [โ€“] d_k_bo@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.

    ~ Linus Torvalds

    [โ€“] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I was looking a Linus/Linux comment, I was trying to remember at what point Linus said "I'm incrementing the major version because these numbers are getting too big, there is no major advancement".

    [โ€“] Walop@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] gon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    ill be downloading this image thank you very much

    [โ€“] lontong@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
    [โ€“] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    Even stranger is the windows 8 and 8.1 part since this is the one and only time a service pack changed the name of the OS.

    [โ€“] zephyr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [โ€“] mindbleach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.

    [โ€“] hemko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    64 came after final, at least according to wikipedia

    [โ€“] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15

    [โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The system for tumbleweed is nice. There's only one version : tumbleweed.

    [โ€“] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    From another perspective, you have a new version every few days, with the date as the version

    [โ€“] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If 42 is a true to Sir Terry Pratchett, then I see anothing wrong with this.

    [โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Douglas adams.

    Your geek credentials have been invalidated, sir please exit the internet immediately.

    [โ€“] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Fuck. I know. I just woke up and haven't had any coffee yet.

    We understand. Regardless, a rule is a rule. Now kindly GTFO.

    [โ€“] tram1@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    41>10>5

    GNOME is clearly the best

    [โ€“] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [โ€“] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Juking the version number was trendy there for a while. It happened to browser versions to. Firefox and Chrome went from like version 10 to 100.

    [โ€“] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

    By 2024 firefox will be on version 1043^624^x*12^69 where x is the latest version of chrome.

    [โ€“] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    "It's 34 versions ahead of cinnamon" -GNOME devs probably

    [โ€“] NULL@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

    Because KDE is boring. /s

    [โ€“] ice2194@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.

    [โ€“] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That still doesn't explain why you would choose the other two instead of just counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 like a sane person.

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    [โ€“] Dnn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    NT was a parallel line of "professional" windows. It had a different kernel or something. There were equivalent versions to most of the home releases.

    The first release was NT 3.1, to match version numbers with the home OS.

    NT 4 was the professional version of win 95/98.

    In the year 2000 Microsoft released both Windows ME, and Windows 2000. ME for the home, 2000 was the NT release for the workplace.

    The products were merged with windows XP, now all windows is windows NT.

    The version numbering makes sense if you count by the NT version numbers. 2000/ME is version 5, therefore XP is 6, and if you pretend Vista never existed (as you should for your own sanity) you get to windows 7 and it all starts to make sense.

    [โ€“] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Gnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly

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