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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well... That was a shitty article.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That's the Lunduke signature.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Imagine taking anything Lunduke says seriously.

Dude's not a clown, he's the whole circus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m OOTL, who is Lunduke and why do they run a circus

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

He was in the opensuse board of directors at some point I think. I knew him from his Youtube channel that talked about Linux and related topics, it was fairly popular in the Linux community for a while. I mostly watched it for Linux related news and technical opinions. A bit after he left that position, he started occasionally mentioning how now that he wasn't representing opensuse anymore he could finally "speak freely". That's when the channel started taking a weird turn.

At first he started going on weird political tangents while doing the whole "I don't talk about politics" thing. Some videos started popping up where he would attack some person or organization for what seemed to be mostly political reasons, but under the guise of his reasoning being purely technical.

Eventually, he just started sounding like someone who fell into a conspiracy rabbit hole, or some weird far right cult. I stopped watching then, most of his videos by then had little technical interest anymore and they sounded more like someone who was losing their mind. I don't know if it's a mental issue or something, but his whole persona shifted dramatically into something... weird. I haven't kept up in the mean time, though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

To add some extra context to the other comment, the guy is a raging bigot.

There's a well known post of his where he repeatedly and intentionally deadnames and misgenders Danielle Fore from elementaryOS, just from the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't follow him but in this particular blog post he's 100% right. Why Linux Foundation funds the Metaverse at all?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

that's the thing though. on top of being a scumbag he's really good at editorializing the garbage he writes.

maybe try reading the actual report for yourself and see if you get to the same conclusions on your own?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that someone posting an article agrees with it, rather than thinking it is worth talking about...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my brother in christ, who told you my comment was directed at you personally

wait, actually? even if it was, imagine thinking anything that comes from Bryan "Nerds Are The Real Oppressed Class, Actually" Lunduke is worth talking about, lmao

[–] TheGrandNagus 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, Lunduke has really went off the rails these past few years

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think he was ever on the rails.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw purple haired people with rainbow face masks on p. 3, I don't need to look any further sir, thank you very much.

... maybe I should add the '/s' too, you never know.

[–] GustavoM 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

>Lunduke

>Points to an article from a known source

>Extrapolates the whole thing

> tl;dr: "oh look less 0.0001% users are using linux compared to yesterday ahahah linux is so ded no rly im 100% serious this time haha"

I'm not using Linux/GNU because of numbers tho, so who cares.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Rustmilian 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody uses 6y old kernels, that's why the decision was made not because of "a lack resources blah blah". Why waste our man hours backporting to an unused kernel.

[–] Rustmilian 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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