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... such as?
"Linux requires constant fixing."
Use one of the stable distros. You generally never have to worry about breakage if you don't go looking for it.
Linux actually has a large swath of testers using rolling release who we've tricked into feeling very superior than the rest of us. /s
Wine is not an emulator.
Linux doesn't require programming knowledge to use, just computer knowledge at most.
I seen a few go opposite end and claim "you do not need computer knowledge, you can just ask chatgpt for the commands and copy-paste."
The two commands below are equivalent so why the fuck does every single guide online use former?
The second way doesn't work on older systems before they added it. I have some Debian servers where it doesn't work
Because I understand the former
The latter can both summon nasal demons and not summon nasal demons. It is in a state superposition until an observer consults the manual
Not in apt manpage.
But in fact at man apt-get.
I blame the feds.
how the fuck is my apartment going to get clean then
Ah wow a pedantic semantical objection, that's egregious as fuck that they thought it was something that is identical to a layman
Confusing "FOSS" with "free software" comes to mind.
Confusing "FOSS" with just "Open Source" seems like the more typical offender.
But the F in FOSS stands for free. I understand that there's a lot more to unpack in the OS part of FOSS, but still, it's not quite wrong.
The F in FOSS stands for Libre
Count Me in the confused group, I thought FOSS was free as in speech software
Free as in speech (software) is nowadays usually referred to as libre.
English is a horrible language full of ambiguity. F/LOSS is libre, but not necessarily gratis.
Isn’t it usually the opposite, gratis (because if it’s open source, you could just build it yourself, unless there’s a proprietary build env or hosted env) but not necessarily libre (because of the license?)
So wouldn’t gratis normally be the superset of libre.
Then there’s a set of gratis but not open source… someone should do a venn diagram.
I could potentially just say it costs money to use this software, but allow you to build it yourself if you don't want to
It's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in case you were wondering
RHEL contains non-FOSS components, and so is not FOSS.
What's gratis?
It means 'free of charge'. It's an English word, but pretty rare, I think. More common in other languages.
it's a latin loanword if you want to get all linguistical about it