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“I use GNU+Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the well-dressed, clean-shaven woman. She swivels around in her desk chair with a devilish gleam in her eyes, ready to womansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, she says with a grin, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “There are complete systems that contain Linux and not GNU; Android is an example. But it is a mistake to call them ‘Linux’ systems, just as it is a mistake to call GNU a ‘Linux’ system.“

The smile quickly drops from the woman’s face. Her body begins convulsing and she foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As she writhes around she screams “I-IT WORKS WITH SYSTEMD! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL LINUX!” Coolly, I reply “If Windows worked with SystemD, would that make it Linux?” I interrupt her response with “-and work is being made on the software to make it more init-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.”

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the woman’s life is ejected from her body. She lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve mansplained her to death.

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