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[-] aqua_cat@pawb.social 14 points 10 months ago

My friend has a terminal disease, and I'm not in sudoers. Please pray for him. 🙏🙏

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

You need to use TempleOS for that

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

i've become so disconnected from the average linux user that i'm no longer capable of understanding the difficulties they encounter. lol

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

You have become an expert, which is half the way to a master who just looks at things and suddenly they become simple for everyone in the room.

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Free as in "you're free to use the system, and tell it what to do", not only as in "you can use it for free".

If the only point for Linux was it being available for free, then just install Windows, open PowerShell and irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

[-] Thaurin@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Free as in freedom has always referred to the availability of the source code and the power to make changes to it.

[-] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but given it's an advertisement to get people into the gate, it's understandable why they'd focus on the "free as in no need to pay" aspect

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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