Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Please stop calling it gun/Linux UNLESS you also use

    • Firestone/bus
    • chisel/David
    • vacuum/Danielle Smith

    Etc.

      • loutr@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Linux is the kernel, useless without actual programs to run on it. In general the minimal set of programs to make a Linux system actually useful (cd, ls, cat, …) are provided by the coreutils package, a GNU project.

        RMS, the founder of GNU, was pissed that people were using Linux + his software and simply calling it Linux, so he insisted that the proper generic name for “Linux” distributions was actually “GNU/Linux” (i.e. GNU utilities + Linux kernel).

        OP’s joke is that we name stuff without specifying their components or needed tools all the time, so we shouldn’t bother doing it for Linux.

    • d6GeZtyi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t get it, why would you even be mad about someone referring it as GNU/Linux?

      In that case it’s even just either X org or the wayland compositor that may implement that, not “linux”.

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      1 year ago

      But why would you call this linux when this is not linux specific thing anyway

    • SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Those examples are dumb, but also don’t tell people what to do holy shit it’s just as infuriating as people who insist everyone needs to include GNU.

    • Zekromaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I mean, we live in a world where there are multiple use cases for non-GNU/Linux (i.e. Alpine). Surely the distinction has become useful.