why is it like this?

ice2194, 11 months ago

Because in the end a "version number" is just part of the name. You can call it anything you want.

voidMainVoid, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

Your error here is assuming sanity.

NikkiDimes, 11 months ago

Two words: Steve Ballmer

voidMainVoid, 11 months ago

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

BiNonBi, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

Minecraft 1.7.🍌

ice2194, 11 months ago

Minebanan: now with more banan

mindbleach, 11 months ago

See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.

hemko, 11 months ago

64 came after final, at least according to wikipedia

mindbleach, 11 months ago

Well now it doesn’t make any dang sense.

HiddenLayer5, 11 months ago

All hail 64! They shall remain after the final days!

AffineConnection, 11 months ago

64 < 3

mindbleach, 11 months ago

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.

NULL, 11 months ago

Because KDE is boring. /s

FluffyPotato, 11 months ago

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.

Xylight, 11 months ago

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.

zephyr, 11 months ago

Latex:

Sweating profusely

mlg, 10 months ago

“It’s 34 versions ahead of cinnamon” -GNOME devs probably