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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

I use Ubuntu btw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

GET BACK IN YOUR HOVEL RICHARD

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I hurd you btw.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Beat me to it 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.

The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

We don't use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Is it the year of the HURD desktop?!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's nothing to apologize for

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Linux didn't work on my random hardware!

Linux doesn't have proprietary program X!

Linux didn't work with my online game that forces you to install spyware on your computer!

Linux doesn't let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!

Linux didn't make me agree to an EULA!

Something like that I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Linux doesn’t let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!

What does this mean? Genuinely Curious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I guess ads

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When you install Windows 11 it suggests OneDrive, Office 365, and Gamepass. After it is installed it will push news articles and advertisements in your start bar. If you use Edge it will also land on a default web page used to advertise products, services, and media.

I think there are some distros of Linux like Ubuntu that does some of these things, but nowhere near what Windows does now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of modern proprietary interfaces have started spamming people with ads about "the latest stuff" in the notification menu, the app launcher menu, and a few other places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sounds like quite a weird reason to prefer Windows, you can just follow an RSS feed with the "latest stuff" and not have it forced down your throat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I don't think people prefer it, I think they're culture shocked when the algorithms stop telling them what to think. It's an uncanny feeling at first and can be uncomfortable for some.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linux doesn't work with my (deprecated) Windows Mixed Reality headset, it's not VR ready!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I'll die before I apologize for linux

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I love that you called them apologists 😂

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

As a Marxist Linux user, I think I found my place lmao

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

TIL most people don't know that "apologists" means apologetics which does NOT mean "apologize." It means to defend something.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seems to be about memes and porn where I'm sitting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 100+ porn communities I've blocked agree with you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can just turn nsfw off in your profile, no?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I must be out of the loop. Are Linux apologists and tankies at cross purposes for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No but we (Linologists) would defeat them if we were

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay fair enough, but if that's the case, do you know what this meme is about?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theres a joke some instances are filled with tankies and it can be annoying for non tankies, when in reality theres actually an even bigger amount of linux apologists who are even more obsessed about their passion/hobby than tankies and talk about it more than they do, which is likely to be more annoying for non linux users. At least thats my takeaway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That was.... honestly a great explanation. Thank you.

But goodness what a deep and context specific cut.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

What if I’m both

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

All 3 have an IT job

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

cope and seethe, redditor

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

FOSS and Privacy apologists , but fervent online gamers in proprietary Games.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So this giant comes from a place where giant trees grow.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I use ubuntu by the way 🤓

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