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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same... The principal engineer on this project also referred to me learning C# as my first exposure to a "real programming language"

After already being advanced in Python

And familiar with C, C++, JavaScript.

I think what he meant by "real" is it comes out of the box with proprietary windows components that aren't going to work anywhere else and don't have human readable code.