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74 5 ReplyMac OS: Cat, Dog, Cow, Panther, Some California park, your uncles house
62 1 ReplyEverything should be date-based name releases.
If it’s released April, 2023 it should be 23.04 or similar.
Other schemes are arbitrary.
Change my mind.
51 6 ReplyI'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.
34 0 ReplyPoor Windows NT.
29 0 ReplyAnd there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15
27 0 ReplyBecause in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.
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19 0 ReplyJuking 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.
18 1 ReplyIt's like that because KDE is based on Qt. On 🪟, It's because they don't care, and on GNOME, it's for aesthetic reasons.
16 1 ReplyEven 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.
14 0 ReplySee also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.
14 0 ReplyWindows 95, 98, me were kernel version 4.0+
Windows 2000 was kernel 5.0
XP and Vista were 6.0 and 6.1
Windows 10 had to be called that because the naming convention used on Windows 95/98 caused someware to see the OS as version 9.x
16 6 ReplyGnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly
10 0 Reply41>10>5
GNOME is clearly the best
8 0 ReplyAlso Firefox, please stop
8 0 ReplyBecause KDE is boring. /s
5 1 ReplyBasically, they were doing 3.15, 3.16, etc but they decided to turn it into whole numbers. It was currently 3.19 so they decided to go from 3 to 4.0, and remove the decimal.
4 0 ReplyLatex:
3 0 Reply"It's 34 versions ahead of cinnamon" -GNOME devs probably
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