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The lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, could've heard about the GNU/Linux operating system.
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Cobain died in April 1994.
The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.
So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.
But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.
¹ It wasn't called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.
Floppy disks💀