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"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.
You’re not wrong about their website, but it still only took 2 clicks to get that information. For reference, I can’t find it at all on Debian’s website without clicking download and looking at the version number in the filename. But you can get that in one click so I suppose they’re doing better.
Edit: Sorry, I was wrong, you can see it under the Microsoft Azure section after one click:
Now try to find Linux Mint's current version number on their website.
On their home page? First thing you see?
Exactly.
If my guesses are correct, the major version number of Ubuntu marks the release year
Correct; the minor number is also the month. Which is why they're almost always .04 or .10; the LTS version is always released in April, with non-LTS releases that serve a similar purpose to Debian Unstable (newer package base at the possible expense of more bugs) are released in October. They also have a convoluted codename system, as many point release distros do.
Only the April releases in even years are LTS