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ELI5: What the heck is linux?
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Linus is an overly complicated and super buggy OS for PC. But for everything else that uses Linux it works fine.
Good for cars, phones, consoles, smart TVs etc. but bad for personal computers as you need a 10 year degree in coding just to install a dumbass program that will probably crash the whole computer anyways.
I hate Linux. I have tried dozens of versions for dozens of years and every distro is the same shit box as the next. I think the real problem is you'll have a distro by a group of regular people and it sucks. Then you have a distro like steam OS where an actual company made it for one specific thing and it works fantasticly.