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Ya'll in this comment section are making things more confusing somehow.
Free Open Source Software:
Is Free; available without purchase
Is Open Source; the source code is available to study and fork
Is Software; A series of intangible instructions that run through a compute module
Do correct me if I'm wrong, because I've just ripped these from other comments in this thread that have been disputed unclearly.
Not financially free but free as in freedom. Although most foss does not need to be bought, but there are foss programs you have to buy and after you bought it you are free to do with it what you want. Although this depends on the licence and copyright. For example you can fork the code and resell it (under certain licences) but due to copyright you can not use certain things such as graphics, fonts and name (depending on their licence).
Graphics font and name fall under trademark I believe, which separates it from copyright.
Firefox is a famous example of this. The code for Firefox is completely open to anyone to fork and reuse, but you cannot call your fork Firefox. Mozilla retains the brand and the logo for it.
So instead we get iceweasel.
Wrong definition of โfree,โ and funnily enough this is where the ensuing comments section confusion starts.
wait someone update this meme to have me drinking out of a straw chain out of the hot dude's straw chain. please title me "complete bullshit lies about FOSS"
edit: and make me happy gollum with three teeth. that's my mood today.
... 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?
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt upgrade -U
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
Confusing "FOSS" with "free software" comes to mind.
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
Confusing "FOSS" with just "Open Source" seems like the more typical offender.
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.
Isnโt it usually the opposite, gratis (because if itโs open source, you could just build it yourself, unless thereโs a proprietary build env or hosted env) but not necessarily libre (because of the license?)
So wouldnโt gratis normally be the superset of libre.
Then thereโs a set of gratis but not open sourceโฆ 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.
This is about some nerd telling me my Linux issues don't exist and I just need X distro?
That's relative to situation and also usually the easier solution to a certain problem because if you need to find a solution for your distro it might come to compiling from source. So, either switch to the distro recommended or just start from Gentoo for everything. If you're using Gentoo, no nerd will tell you to switch to another distro.
i am a nerd and want to do that just to prove a point. so switch distros! i don't know what to, i haven't used linux since college.
wait i just figured it out switch to hannah montana because it would be funny
Hats off to the meme distros that actually fix a problem by the way. :)
If youโre using Gentoo, no nerd will tell you to switch to another distro.
Funny! Lmao
Not using the right distro is the source of everyone's problem, according to the community
I mean, certain distros are very good at marketing themselves/becoming well known, but actually impede wider adoption of Linux due to their piss poor choices or issues that aren't apparent until they have been in use for a few months, so sometimes, yes, the answer is to move to something less broken in weird ways.
Whatever distro you end up on, someone will be in the comments to tell you why it's the wrong choice.
Unless you're using Arch, btw
Except for that one person that tells you to USD Artix instead