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I'll just die instead, thanks Morph
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Let's ask Richard Stallman to explain Linux.
Can't. He's in Dorcia and they won't let us in.
Still working on the documentation eh?
Look, just take this pill.
Linux is a kernel for OS. See, I told you what Linux is. I did it!
I know it is an obvious term for you techbros, but kernel means nothing to your average person though. I would doubt most of them would even know what an OS is (especially abbreviated like that).
Explanation for dummies: Linux is a launcher of computer programs.
So it's like the start menu? (j/k)
Naah!
It's what starts the start menu.
Thanks for the lol of today.
Best explanation of what KERNEL is, it's like car engine and all electronics around it. It's all hidden under the hood, but makes the whole thing run.
Cars have been around for long enough that even non techy people understand at least the crudest basics and this helps them understand computer things when used as analogy.
As someone who's worked on other people's cars, you're giving people way too much credit for knowing stuff about cars...
I have encountered people that didn't know what engine oil was even for or why it had to be changed out periodically.
So linux is the CPU?
Yeah, but... but... like, but... if you just explain it, you'll put people off. You've got to get them to install it first so that they get hooked.
Now eat this random pill I found
Live boot isos are also available
You take the red pill, you wake up to the real world.
You take the blue pill, you keep dreaming.
You take the green pill, you just get to⦠try reality out?
It's important to make sure reality is compatible with your hardware.
Linux is like windows but not corporate and nerds lovingly made it and you have lots of choice and freedom and there's a penguin and a fox girl and she's trans
checkmate it was super easy
Then Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Windows.
Absolutely
If Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Linux...
What is RedHat then? Just Corpo Linux?
Ubuntu is the corporate business owner that got its starting capital from running a brick-and-mortar shop.
RHEL is the offspring of corporate business owners with generational wealth.