mlg, “It’s 34 versions ahead of cinnamon” -GNOME devs probably
zephyr, Latex:
Xylight, Basically, 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.
FluffyPotato, 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.
NULL, Because KDE is boring. /s
mindbleach, See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.
hemko, 64 came after final, at least according to wikipedia
mindbleach, Well now it doesn’t make any dang sense.
HiddenLayer5, All hail 64! They shall remain after the final days!
AffineConnection, 64 < 3
mindbleach, The real Doom 3.
I know id got on the anthology-naming thing after Quake II, but… FEAR was right there. Pick another monosyllabic name for your id-formula FPS and half the criticism would vanish.
ice2194, Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.
voidMainVoid, 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.
ice2194, Your error here is assuming sanity.
NikkiDimes, Two words: Steve Ballmer
voidMainVoid, Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
BiNonBi, Decades long projects during which time the thought on when you should change the version number and what a version number even is has changed multiple times.
joyjoy, Minecraft 1.7.🍌
ice2194, Minebanan: now with more banan
TenTypekMatus, It’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.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot, Can you explain the aesthetic reasoning for GNOME?
ianis, women and gay men crave the big numbers
krakenx, People in general crave the big numbers. It’s why Microsoft is so weird with Xbox naming. Having the Xbox 360 compete with the PlayStation 3 Vs “Xbox 2”.
Firefox also started inflating version numbers because the high version numbers Chrome was using made it look more updated.
drgeppo, if i remember correctly when 3.40 was supposed to launch they just decided to drop the 3
joojmachine, Simple, OP and some people just don’t know what they are talking about. There was no “aesthetic reason”.
One of the big changes in GNOME 40 (that would be 3.40) was the introduction of GTK4. People used to assume that the gnome major versioning scheme was tied to GTK, so loads of people were asking the devs when GNOME 4 was coming out.
To demistify this idea of one being tied to the other they just dropped the “3.”, specially since that part wasn’t that relevant and started with the 40.
const_void, 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.
rikudou, I remember waiting a long time between minor versions around the 2.x versions of Firefox. And then suddenly it was major version every time.
masterofn001, By 2024 firefox will be on version 1043^624^x*12^69 where x is the latest version of chrome.
tram1, 41>10>5
GNOME is clearly the best
SkyeStarfall, What about windows 2000
cupcakezealot, Or 3.1 -> NT 3 -> 95 -> NT 4 -> 98
Sir_Simon_Spamalot, It’s a superior ancient lost technology.
cupcakezealot, Not until version 42
LaggyKar, And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15
MartinXYZ, If 42 is a true to Sir Terry Pratchett, then I see anothing wrong with this.
InverseParallax, Douglas adams.
Your geek credentials have been invalidated, sir please exit the internet immediately.
MartinXYZ, Fuck. I know. I just woke up and haven’t had any coffee yet.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot, We understand. Regardless, a rule is a rule. Now kindly GTFO.
Nir, Wait, don’t they still have the option to pics or gtfo?
I move that we demand a cat tax in lieu of gtfo.
toasteecup, Personally I’m fine with
Pics or GTFO
Where pics are one of
- cat tax
- tits
- tasteful nudes
- a very cool piece of a collection
rikudou, Cat tax? Tits? Tasteful nudes? AI to the rescue! (NSFW)
InverseParallax, …
Well, I guess the rules are the rules, as you were.
toasteecup, Whelp. That’s definitely a thing I’ve seen now. Will admit I did say one of those options but here we are
mindbleach, Mulligan.
AnUnusualRelic, The system for tumbleweed is nice. There’s only one version : tumbleweed.
LaggyKar, Really, you have a new version every few days, with the date as the version
cupcakezealot, Mac OS: Cat, Dog, Cow, Panther, Some California park, your uncles house
d_k_bo, I’ll likely call it 6.0 since I’m starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.
pete_the_cat, 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”.
eleefece, Also Firefox, please stop
amycatgirl, Gnome 40/41/etc is still 3.40/3.41/etc if I remember correctly
sohrabbehdani, no they just decided to make 4.0 into 40
InverseParallax, Lessons learned from the software masterpiece that was Solaris no doubt.
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