this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

cope and seethe, redditor

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 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 (3 children)

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

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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] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I love that you called them apologists 😂

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (6 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] 6 points 1 month ago

Beat me to it 😂

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

I hurd you btw.

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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 (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

6 in one, half dozen in the other

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