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

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

GET BACK IN YOUR HOVEL RICHARD

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I hurd you btw.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

Beat me to it 😂

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Is it the year of the HURD desktop?!

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago

There's nothing to apologize for

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

I'll die before I apologize for linux

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

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

[–] glockenspiel@programming.dev 12 points 6 days ago

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

[–] destiper@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

What if I’m both

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

6 in one, half dozen in the other

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week 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

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

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

But goodness what a deep and context specific cut.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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).

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

cope and seethe, redditor

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

hell yeah!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I bet most f-cars posters have a car, too. Maybe more than one!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

PEBKAC

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I use ubuntu by the way 🤓

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use ubuntu by the way 🤓

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They all do, they just tell people they use arch cause it makes them look cool.

[–] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I use endeavour because it's got the best security features I could find in the ecosystem.

Aka I use arch

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

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