Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian
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The point being this is not common knowledge or vernacular.
To all but the most learned, something is either "Linux-y" or "Windows-y" or "Mac-y".
I'm not sure we'll ever get away from the idea that the word "Linux" has simply become "those other OSes that aren't Windows or Mac".
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@guyinpv said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
"Mac-y"
Windows is bad Mmmkay
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@guyinpv Common knowledge tells people tomatoes are vegetables when they are actually fruit
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@guyinpv said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
To all but the most learned, something is either "Linux-y" or "Windows-y" or "Mac-y".
How does something appear to be Linux or Mac since they share almost everything?
What do you call it when Windows looks Linuxy and Linux does not?
Ubuntu on Windows is pure Windows, no Linux, but looks like what you think of as Linux.
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@guyinpv said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
I'm not sure we'll ever get away from the idea that the word "Linux" has simply.....
What is important is that people in tech, IT and business should use Linux to mean Linux. People who use Linux to mean "thing I made up known only to me" will always exist and must be ignored. This exists in every field.
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Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
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@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
Both actually
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@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
In the case that promoted the discussion.... IT people trying to make deep technical decisions based on totally false information created by totally bluffing on using a term they didn't understand.
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@scottalanmiller said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
In the case that promoted the discussion.... IT people trying to make deep technical decisions based on totally false information created by totally bluffing on using a term they didn't understand.
What is considered "common knowledge" is actually no knowledge. Like how every component of a computer is the "monitor" or "domain". They learn one word and then call everything that word.
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@wirestyle22 said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@scottalanmiller said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
In the case that promoted the discussion.... IT people trying to make deep technical decisions based on totally false information created by totally bluffing on using a term they didn't understand.
What is considered "common knowledge" is actually no knowledge. Like how every component of a computer is the "monitor" or "domain". They learn one word and then call everything that word.
When I used to call domain controllers "domains", too
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@wirestyle22 said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@wirestyle22 said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@scottalanmiller said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
In the case that promoted the discussion.... IT people trying to make deep technical decisions based on totally false information created by totally bluffing on using a term they didn't understand.
What is considered "common knowledge" is actually no knowledge. Like how every component of a computer is the "monitor" or "domain". They learn one word and then call everything that word.
When I used to call domain controllers "domains", too
LOL. Oh yeah. That was so confusing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@wirestyle22 said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@wirestyle22 said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@scottalanmiller said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
@black3dynamite said in Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian:
Who are we having issues with using the word Linux incorrectly, End Users or IT Pros?
In the case that promoted the discussion.... IT people trying to make deep technical decisions based on totally false information created by totally bluffing on using a term they didn't understand.
What is considered "common knowledge" is actually no knowledge. Like how every component of a computer is the "monitor" or "domain". They learn one word and then call everything that word.
When I used to call domain controllers "domains", too
LOL. Oh yeah. That was so confusing.
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My Linux is better than your Linux.
