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
Why do I hear boss music?
GET BACK IN YOUR HOVEL RICHARD
I hurd you btw.
Beat me to it 😂
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.
Is it the year of the HURD desktop?!
There's nothing to apologize for
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.
Linux doesn't work with my (deprecated) Windows Mixed Reality headset, it's not VR ready!
....Linux has a weak security system that open source advocates insist on keeping in the 2000s cause the nsa or something
I'll die before I apologize for linux
I love that you called them apologists 😂
As a Marxist Linux user, I think I found my place lmao
TIL most people don't know that "apologists" means apologetics which does NOT mean "apologize." It means to defend something.
Seems to be about memes and porn where I'm sitting.
I must be out of the loop. Are Linux apologists and tankies at cross purposes for some reason?
Yeah. Linux is anarchist. Tankies don't believe in Linux because it functions without state ownership. They think it's a CIA psyop.
No? Linux is usually supported by leftists in general, especially considering the alternative is largely MacOS or Windows, both corporate spyware. Marxist-Leninist orgs like FRSO even use it as standard (check the bottom of the page).
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I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation, but that's at least an explanation for why they might be at cross purposes. Can anyone else who's upvoting the meme explain what this is about?
*Apostels
But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?
All 3 have an IT job
What if I’m both
hell yeah!
cope and seethe, redditor
So this giant comes from a place where giant trees grow.
Below average redwood
I use ubuntu by the way 🤓
I use ubuntu by the way 🤓
They all do, they just tell people they use arch cause it makes them look cool.
I use endeavour because it's got the best security features I could find in the ecosystem.
Aka I use arch by the way
