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Ubuntu Likes October Better.

So while working on remembering how the human body is supposed to move, I realized something that will haunt me forever as an Ubuntu user and remix developer. I come here with a simple question for Canonical, why do the x.10 releases almost ALWAYS have the better names?

Accident? Because the first whole Ubuntu release was in October (4.10)? Or am I just looking to hard into this because I am 99% sure someone at Debian who knew I finally got a package working stole my nervous system while I was asleep, and I woke up at 4:40 AM with pains comparable to being shot in the liver while giving birth for 2 hours packed into 5 minutes?

Who cares! Let's just prove x.10 names are better than the x.04 names.

Note: This is all 100% personal preference and just meant to be done for fun! Don't take anything I say seriously.

Let's set the scene

Ubuntu has a place where they have all the code names listed in a nice neat little thing! Using this I will confirm my theory by writing out every x.10 release name and every x.04 release name in a table which I may or may not have put below.

Descending by oldest to newest, with a preference for that 10 / 04 release pair.

x.10 namesx.10 version #x.04 namesx.04 version #My Preference
Warty Warthog4.10Hoary Hedgehog5.0410
Breezy Badger5.10Dapper Drake6.0610
Edgy Eft6.10Feisty Fawn7.0410
Gutsy Gibbon7.10Hardy Heron8.0410
Intrepid Ibex8.10Jaunty Jackalope9.0404
Karmic Koala9.10Lucid Lynx10.0404
Maverick Meerkat10.10Natty Narwhal11.0404
Oneiric Ocelot11.10Precice Pangaloin12.0410
Quantal Quetzal12.10Raring Ringtale13.0404
Saucy Salamandar13.10Trusty Tahr14.0410
Utopic Unicorn14.10Vivid Vervet15.0410
Wily Werewolf15.10Xenial Xerus16.0410
Yakkety Yak16.10Zesty Zapus17.0410
Aardvark Aardvark17.10Bionic Bever18.0404
Cosmic Cuddlefish18.10Disco Dingo19.0410
Eoan Ermine19.10Focal Fossa20.0404
Groovy Gorilla20.10N/AN/A10

04 Preference Count: 6
10 Preference Count: 11

I will reference every year by the 10's title (adjective) because 4.10 came first so they get the name setup. Because before why we talk about why my preference, I need to talk about the distros themselves too.

Why?

Cycle AdjectivePrefShort answer
Warty10Warty is just a fun word to say
Breezy10Easy and sane name. Also, 6.06 isn't 04 (/s).
Edgy10Heh heh word "edgy" funny!
Gutsy10Gibbon is a fun insult
Intrepid04"Intrepid Ibex"... what's an Ibex!?
Karmic04Lucid Lynx is a wonderful name
Maverick04I just prefer the word natty
Oneiric10Neither really won, but I picked 10 because I like it better
Quantal04Raring Ringtail hits
Saucy10SALAMANDERS WITH LINGERIE!!
Utopic10Utopia is dystopia... so Dictator Unicorns
Wily10I wish it could have been Coyotee, oh well
Yakkety10Yakkety Yak Yak Yakkety Yakkety...
Aardvark04Aardvark Aardvark... no.
Cosmic10SPACE CUDDLEFISH!!!
Eoan04Eoan is hard to spell.
Groovy10No competition.Literally

The 10 names more often than not make sense, and only twice did 04 win because it was "better" (Natty and Raring) while the rest won because just slightly easier to remember/spell.

This is scientific proof that Canonical prefers the October releases.


... took me an hour to write this mess.

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Just checking, you do know it's "gutsy" not "gusty"?

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Yes, sorry it was a typo I didn't know I made

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