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   Nerviest Initial (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:39:30 JST Nerviest Initial

   People in the future are going to be super confused by Windows versions.

   "So there was Windows, right?"

   "Well, mostly Windows 3.1."

   "Which was the third version?"

   "No."

   "So then Windows 4 must have come after that."

   "No, they jumped to version 95."

   "So then Windows 96..."

   "No, then they skipped to 98."

   "Oh, but it was for the year it came out, right?"

   "Kinda."

   "But surely after that..."

   "Well, after that they actually moved away from version numbers and gave them names."

   "Oh, like MacOS!"

   "Sort of..."

   "What do you mean?"

   "Well, the first version was XP."

   "What does that stand for?"

   "No idea."

   "Did they just use letters after that?"

   "No, then they named the next version Vista."

   "Like... the stuff you see out of a window! Ok, so the version after that was Windows Outlook, right?"

   "No, the version after that was Windows 7."

   "7?!"

   "Yeah."

   "But... It wasn't the seventh version of Windows even."

   "Yeah, but the version after 7 was 8."

   "Okay, back on track!"

   "Not really. The next version was 10."

   "Because it came out in 2010?"

   "No."

   "Fuck."

   "Then came Windows 11, and they stopped releasing new versions for a while and just added LLM panopticon nonsense until everyone switched to Linux in the 2030s and then when the second coming of Jesus fried everyone's hard drives..."

   "Yeah, yeah, I know, Windows II: The Empire Strikes Back..."

   "No, that was Windows V."

   "I give up."

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     Mono = One; Rail = Rail (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:40:33 JST Mono = One; Rail = Rail

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     @intransitivelie wait where's ME and NT?

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     perdantperdant (perdantperdant@piaille.fr)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:40:43 JST perdantperdant

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     @pikesley @intransitivelie And 2000!

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     Kristian 🐟‮ (kly@snabelen.no)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:40:54 JST Kristian 🐟‮

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     @intransitivelie @perdantperdant @pikesley

     Well, you do have Millenium Edition which is vastly different from 2000... There was a period where I seriously thought ME was just a synonym for 2000.

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     Nerviest Initial (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:40:55 JST Nerviest Initial

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     • perdantperdant

     @perdantperdant @pikesley
     No, in all seriousness, I couldn't think of good jokes for them.

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     Nerviest Initial (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:40:57 JST Nerviest Initial

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     • perdantperdant

     @perdantperdant @pikesley
     They don't count 😝

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     Joe (TBA) 🇺🇸 (regguy@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:41:08 JST Joe (TBA) 🇺🇸

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     @intransitivelie Hahaha, Linux, Hah. People aren't going to go from Windows to Linux. Not in any volume at least.

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     Nerviest Initial (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:41:37 JST Nerviest Initial

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     • Joe (TBA) 🇺🇸

     @RegGuy
     They will in the 2030s right before the second coming of Jesus. Nostradamus said so, and he's never been wrong about anything.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 14:43:15 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Joe (TBA) 🇺🇸

     @RegGuy I’m seeing it happening. I have been to three Linux install events this year and random citizens showed up with their Windows 10 computers (in one case Windows 7) and we got them on Mint and Kubuntu (Xubuntu for the Windows 7 one). And repair cafés are stepping up and doing it, too!