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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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Pffff. You losers actually think Linux is better? IBM OS/2 FTW FUCKAHS. 😎

 

 

 

(/s obv)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Linux just moved out of 5.x.x hell. Well catch up soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wow.! A graph and everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Browsers compared themselves with this metric for a while, but they had to stop before they reached an integer overflow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Use gnome then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are we sure this isn't satire?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's nothing! Darwin is on version 23.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

linux doesn't have a panther checkmate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Windows 2000 enters the room

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

14 versions and they still haven't got it right? SMH.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

FACTS don't care about your feelings! Study reveals Macos is 2 1/3 times better than Linux, massive 27% improvement over Windows!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Pfff my systemd is version 255.2-2, I am lightyears ahead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Lunix sucks so much that it got stuck into the version 2 for years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is how mac user do statistics?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But number must go up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mac OS is actually at version 23 (they restarted the count at 10).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

technically, Darwin, the microkernel, is at 23.2.0, but it was based on the Mach microkernel from NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (which is part of why it stared at 10)

the latest release of macOS is 14.2.1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wasn't trying to get into the weeds about actual kernel version numbers; I was just saying they made classic Mac OS from versions 1-9 and OS X from versions 1-14, and 9 + 14 = 23.

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