Poor Windows NT.
NT was a parallel line of “professional” windows. It had a different kernel or something. There were equivalent versions to most of the home releases.
The first release was NT 3.1, to match version numbers with the home OS.
NT 4 was the professional version of win 95/98.
In the year 2000 Microsoft released both Windows ME, and Windows 2000. ME for the home, 2000 was the NT release for the workplace.
The products were merged with windows XP, now all windows is windows NT.
The version numbering makes sense if you count by the NT version numbers. 2000/ME is version 5, therefore XP is 6, and if you pretend Vista never existed (as you should for your own sanity) you get to windows 7 and it all starts to make sense.
NT was 4.0 and the same basic operating system as 95 but with server services.
There was actually an NT 3.1 IIRC
Different kernel. 95 was still DOS based. I believe a significant amount of stuff (especially drivers of course) which worked on one side didn’t work on the other.
XP was the “merger” - the first NT based system for the consumer market.
XP was the “merger” - the first NT based system for the consumer market.
You’re thinking of Windows 2000. Win2K was released before Windows ME, and was widely sold on consumer market computers. When ME came out, and was pretty terrible, Win2K remained as the popular consumer option.
A lot of people did use it on home computers (myself included) but the target was still businesses. XP had TV ads and colorful themes, and all that, while Windows 2000… Didn’t. (Well maybe on C-SPAN or something) And the most basic (major) edition was “Professional” instead of something like “Home” as XP had.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the big box computer makers did ship with it to home users, but it wasn’t “meant” for them.
Oh sure - the intent was for it to be a business-centric OS, it definitely was not flashy, but it was just so much better than 9x that plenty of computer makers made it available, and lots of people chose it over 98SE.
Yeah windows ME came out around the same time as 2000 and was the consumer targeted OS
The googles tells me that Win2K was released Feb 17, 2000, and that ME was released Sep 14, 2000. Plenty of time for word to get out about how much better 2000 was than 9x even for home use.
Ah but in reality that wasn’t entirely the case, direct X compatible drivers were a big sticking point basically until XP came along. Windows 2000 was fantastic as a productivity OS, but it wasn’t fully there for the home user yet
It was also a lot more expensive than Windows 9x/me, so most consumer desktops went that way. The only people running 2000 were professionals and nerds that weren’t running Linux.
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Maybe to a paw?
Of all the things wrong with GNOME, their choice of logo is at the bottom of the list.
Their insistence that it be pronounced ‘guh-nome’ is a worse crime.
Ratio
I thought you were very much not supposed to read the G?
/r/whoosh
You mean [email protected] or c/[email protected].
GNU as the animal or the initials, okay, sure. Debatable. Gnome is a whole-ass word. That is ridiculous.
Up there with QT insisting their name isn’t Q-T. The initials are a word. If you wanted it pronounced Qute you should’ve called it that.
As I tell my wife, feet are gross.
Your poor wife.
Bro thinks he is Nickelodeon 😭
You’d think LXQT would have foot logo.
“It’s 34 versions ahead of cinnamon” -GNOME devs probably
Latex:
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.
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and also make a top notch desktop environment and thats on a bad day including the bugs
They did all their bloat on one day back in 2008 and have been smooth as silk since.
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.
Can you explain the aesthetic reasoning for GNOME?
women and gay men crave the big numbers
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.
if i remember correctly when 3.40 was supposed to launch they just decided to drop the 3
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.
Windows 95, 98, me were kernel version 4.0+
Windows 2000 was kernel 5.0
XP and Vista were 6.0 and 6.1
Windows 10 had to be called that because the naming convention used on Windows 95/98 caused someware to see the OS as version 9.x
I came here for this answer.
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.
By 2024 firefox will be on version 1043624x*12^69 where x is the latest version of chrome.
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.
ill be downloading this image thank you very much
You wouldn’t download an image
Just you wait until I can print images!
Because KDE is boring. /s
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.
See also the Doom numbering system: Ultimate, 2, 64, Final, 3, (2016), Eternal.
64 came after final, at least according to wikipedia
Well now it doesn’t make any dang sense.
All hail 64! They shall remain after the final days!
64 < 3
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.
And there is OpenSUSE: 10 11 12 13 42 15
Mulligan.
If 42 is a true to Sir Terry Pratchett, then I see anothing wrong with this.
Douglas adams.
Your geek credentials have been invalidated, sir please exit the internet immediately.
Fuck. I know. I just woke up and haven’t had any coffee yet.
We understand. Regardless, a rule is a rule. Now kindly GTFO.
Wait, don’t they still have the option to pics or gtfo?
I move that we demand a cat tax in lieu of gtfo.
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
Cat tax? Tits? Tasteful nudes? AI to the rescue! (NSFW)
The system for tumbleweed is nice. There’s only one version : tumbleweed.
From another perspective, you have a new version every few days, with the date as the version
41>10>5
GNOME is clearly the best
What about windows 2000
Or 3.1 -> NT 3 -> 95 -> NT 4 -> 98
It’s a superior ancient lost technology.
Not until version 42
