What lemmy is *really* about

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 use Ubuntu btw

GET BACK IN YOUR HOVEL RICHARD
I hurd you btw.
Beat me to it 😂
A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.
The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.
We don't use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.
- Is it the year of the HURD desktop?!
Why do I hear boss music?

There's nothing to apologize for

Linux didn't work on my random hardware!
Linux doesn't have proprietary program X!
Linux didn't work with my online game that forces you to install spyware on your computer!
Linux doesn't let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!
Linux didn't make me agree to an EULA!
Something like that I guess.
- Linux doesn’t let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!
  What does this mean? Genuinely Curious.
- Linux doesn't work with my (deprecated) Windows Mixed Reality headset, it's not VR ready!
- ....Linux has a weak security system that open source advocates insist on keeping in the 2000s cause the nsa or something

I'll die before I apologize for linux

I love that you called them apologists 😂

As a Marxist Linux user, I think I found my place lmao

TIL most people don't know that "apologists" means apologetics which does NOT mean "apologize." It means to defend something.

Apo + logos = words in defense of something. Easy peasy. But of course that requires some sort of education...
- Not fluent in latin so thank you for clarifying :D learnt someting new

Seems to be about memes and porn where I'm sitting.

The 100+ porn communities I've blocked agree with you
- You can just turn nsfw off in your profile, no?
6 in one, half dozen in the other

I must be out of the loop. Are Linux apologists and tankies at cross purposes for some reason?

No but we (Linologists) would defeat them if we were
- Okay fair enough, but if that's the case, do you know what this meme is about?
Yeah. Linux is anarchist. Tankies don't believe in Linux because it functions without state ownership. They think it's a CIA psyop.
- No? Linux is usually supported by leftists in general, especially considering the alternative is largely MacOS or Windows, both corporate spyware. Marxist-Leninist orgs like FRSO even use it as standard (check the bottom of the page).
- RedStarOS has entered the chat
- I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation, but that's at least an explanation for why they might be at cross purposes. Can anyone else who's upvoting the meme explain what this is about?

What if I’m both

*Apostels

But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?

All 3 have an IT job

cope and seethe, redditor

So this giant comes from a place where giant trees grow.

Below average redwood

FOSS and Privacy apologists , but fervent online gamers in proprietary Games.

I bet most f-cars posters have a car, too. Maybe more than one!
- PEBKAC

I use ubuntu by the way 🤓

They all do, they just tell people they use arch cause it makes them look cool.
- I use endeavour because it's got the best security features I could find in the ecosystem.
  Aka I use arch by the way