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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).
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Genuinely feels great to be hopeful about some parts of technology/software like this. I eagerly look forward to an update from KDE and sometimes GNOME.
Compare that to Google, Microsoft, any other public big tech, I start to just question why I'm not living in the forest as a new member of a Bigfoot extended family.
Every update on Google or MS: Oh god please no.
Every update on FOSS apps, Linux: Give me more daddy.
Gnome updates are like god playing dice.