schnurrito

schnurrito , vor 12 Tagen

"The OS" doesn't exist. The operating systems you're talking about are called Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, RHEL, etc etc. The main work of making an actually usable OS from the various free software components others have written has always been done by the teams responsible for these products.

But we still need a way to refer to them collectively, and it used to make sense to call them "Linux" because they were pretty much the only operating systems that used the Linux kernel, but now that Android is the most widely used OS on the planet, it doesn't anymore, and this alone is a reason to say GNU/Linux unless you want to include Android.

schnurrito , vor 12 Tagen

GTK being a part of GNU (at least originally)

schnurrito , vor 11 Tagen

the thing is that not all of them use systemd or bash or zsh or even X11 (servers don't usually have X11 installed)

All of them use a Linux kernel and many components that were originally developed for GNU, especially the C library.

schnurrito , vor 14 Tagen

Hört auf, Dinge zu posten, von denen ihr denkt, dass sie falsch und nicht lesenswert sind. Das gibt dem nur mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Es hat gereicht, dass ich es vorgestern in den Mastodon-Feed bekommen hab.

schnurrito , vor einem Monat

ahhh i remember being a bored teenager spending his life customizing his desktop too...

Nowadays I just want a working system where I can get things done, haven't touched my desktop environment settings in a while and certainly don't use things like cubes or wobbly windows anymore.

schnurrito , vor einem Monat

https://xkcd.com/1989/

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

Linux on an Intel-based MacBook Air was my daily driver for years. It worked perfectly fine; battery life was lower than on macOS though.

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

Since the 80’s, Linux has been using a display server called the X Window System

This is, of course, not true, given that Linux did not yet exist in the 1980s.

Unix-like systems that predate Linux did already use it in the 1980s.

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

by default yes, this can be changed back though

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

Something like that already exists, look up Freedom Phone

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

Because DOS and later Windows used to be the only OS that was relevant for IBM PC compatible systems. Only later were eg. Unix-like systems developed for them.

schnurrito , vor 2 Monaten

als ich jung war, war Influenza noch eine Krankheit