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pauses massive bong rip

Wait what this doesn't sound like reality

checks

Hmmm

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[-] misk@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Linux is a kernel. If you try to define it as more you’ll find yourself in a land of contradictions due to previously mentioned examples.

Android is “Linux”. It might not have GNU userland or X11/Wayland. It is essentially a commoditised appliance but there’s Linux kernel there. KDE runs on many different Unix-like systems, it’s not something that defines Linux.

If I log into a remote Linux shell where a system administrator locked me out of most of the things, does it make it less Linux?

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