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No. Linux is an operating system. So is Windows. Hardware is hardware. They are not people.
^ Found the real Linux user.
Prolly just another person who doesn't care what ya do but thinks this entire gender debacle absolutely moronic
Found the transphobe.
Not necessarily, I find it moronic too. Like why is it even a discussion? Let people do what they want. It doesn't harm anyone and might make them a lot happier.
idk it's one of those weird things. I've adopted the strategy of "i dont care, unless it's something principally important to me. I do go around shitposting shower thoughts i've had from time to time though. This is one of those situations im guessing.
i think part of the problem is the polarization. It's so aggressive now that communities have started openly and regularly speaking about it, in order to naturally flush out the other party. It also has the secondary affect of creating an openly explicit safe space, which is an interesting concept.
That attitude tends to piss off conservatives. =3
Nope, the entire discussion is just made up and is bloody stupid.
All discussions are made up.
why is blood stupid? What did it ever do to you?
What business is it of yohrs what people identify as?
Let people express themselves how they want. What discussion is there to be had?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
[I'm sorry, could not resist.]
so what about a windows machine, that was later retrofitted with linux?
You mean every laptop or desktop machine pre-System76?
yeah, pretty much.
errm, ackshually, as you said, windows and linux are both operating systems. therefore, they're actually software, not hardware 🤓
Erm AKSHUALLY, I was making a reference to the fact that different operating systems run on hardware.