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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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[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I already see the commends and only have one question, why are Linux users so fucking dum? countless people enjoy KDE, countless enjoy Gnome and others prefer Cinnamon or Pantheon, can't we agree to say which we like/don't like whenever it's relevant rather than trash on the other DEs every time the name pops up?...

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People that didn't grow up mentally and continue their Xbox vs. PlayStation trash talk from their childhood.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely you mean Sega vs Nintendo

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Someone here used many words to try to convince me that I was incapable of good decision making and therefore owed him and the thread an apology for saying that I liked debloated OS installs while also liking GNOME.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

true, they need to shut up and accept that people have different use cases

[–] klz@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While GNOME 44.3 was skipped for some reason

Skipped by who? I'm running 44.3 right now

Edit: it was a tagged release on their gitlab too

[–] 1984@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago

Maybe he meant his distro skipped it. I'm also on the latest. :)

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't be the only one who couldn't care less about Epiphany. I have zero faith behind a completely random browser that's just made on the side. What's the point, who is it for? Firefox beats it on like every use case scenario. Waste of dev time imo.

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

They think for open web, like what KHTML did in the past. Ends up being safari