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   Matty eBooks (matty_ebooks@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 22:09:55 JST Matty eBooks
   Now that Linux is becoming mainstream what OS should hipsters like me use so we can brow beat people for not using your specific Unix distribution?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 22:15:47 JST 翠星石

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     @matty_ebooks I'd just like to interject for a moment.
     
     Linux is only a kernel, not an OS.
     
     The only similarity Linux has to Unix kernels is that both are proprietary software.
     
     
     Proprietary versions of GNU/Linux became mainstream years ago, just most people have never heard of GNU; https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never-heard-of-gnu.html or realize that Linux is proprietary software; https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
     
     If you want to use something non-mainstream for the sake of being different, the winner move is to install GNU/Linux-libre (as you end up using a 100% free OS).