this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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[โ€“] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 minutes ago

cope and seethe, redditor

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 minute ago

I use ubuntu by the way ๐Ÿค“

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

I use ubuntu by the way ๐Ÿค“

[โ€“] kazaika@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago
[โ€“] Xenobiotic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 hour ago

I love that you called them apologists ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 hours ago (2 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

[โ€“] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Beat me to it ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

I hurd you btw.

[โ€“] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

All 3 have an IT job

[โ€“] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 1 points 59 minutes ago

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

[โ€“] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz -1 points 51 minutes ago

Yeah. Linux is anarchist. Tankies don't believe in Linux because it functions without state ownership. They think it's a CIA psyop.

[โ€“] boreengreen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[โ€“] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

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

[โ€“] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 1 hour ago

6 in one, half dozen in the other