Side topic: I wish macOS would stick to just numbers in their os updates to make it drop dead easy to recall which update and how old one is. I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of Californian geography and even if I did, that doesn’t help me remember what Big Sur was vs. Catalina
It helped that they did major releases only every 2-4 years. I think a new major release every year is too much, especially when the changes are things like "we rearranged the system preferences menu" or "new emoji"
I wish they went back to this. A two year release cycle, alternating iOS and macOS could result in much more polished software, and more meaningful updates. If they took their environmental stuff really seriously they could do a two year cycle with devices too, alternating iPhone's and iPad's. I guess everything is so tightly coupled on the software side that this probably isn't possible (at least the alternating part).
Both MacOS and Ubuntu have a funny name and a number, the question is really just which people actually use. You could call Sonoma MacOS 13 or Sonoma, and you can call Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish.
