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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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why do you think linux is better than windows? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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im a windows user myself,i dont like linux nor use it. but i did use it before (pop os).

so im intersed in knowing why some people like it.

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a tinkerer. It's made for people like me that like to take stuff apart and put it back together to see how it works. It also, quite literally, does EXACTLY as I tell it and set it up to operate. It is MY operating system and MY computer to 100% control however I wish, not some stale-ass predatory slop-driven corporation's.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And one major thing that Linux also does that Windows does not is Linux will never install an application on your computer that you didn't explicitly tell it to install.

I have uninstalled nopilot on work computers so many times. I run scripts to manually disable and remove it and prevent Windows from installing nopilot, and Windows updates, reverts what I did, and then reinstalls fucking nopilot, and then sneakily launches it in the taskbar where I can't easily see that it's running to begin with.

Voluntarily running windows at this point is kind of like voluntarily allowing yourself to be sexually assaulted.

Only weirdos and sad people who don't know that it could easily not be like that continue to put up with it.