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ELI5: What the heck is linux? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 2 months ago by LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I'm old. I don't understand it.

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[-] papertowels@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

So you know how your phone runs android or iOS? Think of windows as one, and Linux as the other if they could both run on the same hardware.

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