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
Use gnome then
Browsers compared themselves with this metric for a while, but they had to stop before they reached an integer overflow.
Wow.! A graph and everything.
That's nothing! Darwin is on version 23.
Pfff my systemd is version 255.2-2, I am lightyears ahead.
FACTS don't care about your feelings! Study reveals Macos is 2 1/3 times better than Linux, massive 27% improvement over Windows!
linux doesn't have a panther checkmate
Windows 2000 enters the room
You people be bringing Linux distro versions, which are indeed double digits, but the graph really be showing the Linux kernel version, not the distros. And Linux kernel version is indeed 6.7 at the time of writing this
Popularity =/= quality tho. See: Windows. :^)
Don't worry, the joke is that the graph doesn't have anything to do with popularity, it compares the OSes' respective current versioning numbers 😉
I mean current version really doesn't mean anything because people aren't going to upgrade if the version they're using is fine. I submit that this is a perfect example of correlation != causation. I may have gotten the order wrong on the not equal symbology since I haven't used it in a while.
Also, are we talking Linux kernal versions? There are so many problems with this comparison.
But number must go up!
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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