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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Isn't it Mac OS X 14? I.e., Mac OS 10.14?

[–] dizzy@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No they ditched OSX and yearly point updates in 2020 and went from Mac OSX 10.15.7 to MacOS 11.0

The next yearly release was MacOS 12.

It's now up to 14.2.1

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] dizzy@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Probably just wanted a higher number than windows or didn’t want to get leapfrogged. Also makes more sense with iOS having a similar schedule.

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