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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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dudes, I am linux pilled (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 days ago by Darbage@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.

I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin. As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.

I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago. My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.

what, the actual fuck, is "S" mode?

ctrl-alt-t "install that shit"!

A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That's trash. The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn't found its way into yet. The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.

Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I love your comparison of where issues come from on Linux vs Windows. That's so apt (heh). Even after 10 years of using Linux, I never really thought of it that way.

It's frustrating when any computer doesn't do what you want; but you're right, it's infuriating when the problems are engineered to manipulate you into parting with your money, attention, or privacy.

(( insert anti-capitalist rant here ))

[–] Darbage@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

preach it, the capture of people into software ecosystems is getting so out of hand. I was thinking about microsoft vs apple, and while they do the same shit at least it seems to work well lol

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