That 30 year old boomer who claims "this is the year of the Linux desktop" every year

t. Boomer

Ha good Joke 20y/o boomer.

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No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

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Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag. Thanks for listening.

people spend most time on the web anyway, desktop apps are being developed more and more using Electron. The OS itself is becoming more and more irrelevant.

Can someone explain the simpleton farmer boomer meme to me?

I know it's from Jow Forums but I don't really get it.

>30
That's a millennial, dipshit. Boomers are twice their age.

GET AWF MAH LAWN KIDDOS
>t. u, a 20yo boomer

>tfw 36 year old millennial, literally the oldest one can be and still be a millennial because my 18th birthday was 1/1/2000

can I be a 18yo boomer too?

Fucking boomers

there oughta be a law against it.

Wish these fucking 20 year old boomers would hurry up and fucking die already

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When will mods just ban all phone posters?

Do kids today think "boomer" means "old person"?

>that 12 year old boomer that still plays call of duty

Apparently Google is working on it.

New ReCAPTCHA will require "human like" mouse movements so no more touch screens (or trackpoints).

>he still uses JSCaptcha

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based boomer

I like to call it Eric Raymond freedom (th) OS

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>Do kids today think
No.

>just took sociology 101!

>that guy who doesn't even know that 30 years ago was 60 years ago is a meme you dip

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Just compare it vs DOS:

>Designed for personal computers
>Simple, easy directory tree
>Handful of configuration files (autoexec.bat, himem.sys, config.sys)
>No complicated user configurations and permissions
>Literally one directory (DOS)
>Add windows: literally 2 directories, Dos, and Windows
>Run Windows by calling win.com from autoexec.bat
>Using only dos, just load the mouse driver and mscdex and sound drivers and you're fine
>Everyone in DOS world was happy with EDIT.EXE, no arguments
>God said let there be 256 colors
>You are the only user and you can run any command you want
>Modern windows continues the simple directory tree and uses the same DOS interface for command line

Now look at GNU/Linux:
>carbon copy of UNIX, which is designed for complicated server systems with large user bases
>Users trying in veign to turn complicated server OS into a personal computing OS
>Confusing and large directory tree
>Configuration files not localised to any particular area
>Toolset depends on easy to forget command names
>Unhealthy fear of GUIs
>Giant nerd wars over VIM vs EMACS
>Loading correct drivers usually involves searching google for info on your windows machine
>450 different ways to break your install
>a simple change in your bios (like reset defaults) could literally make the system unbootable
>designed by obtuse autists
>desktop environments less stable than windows
>muh freedom
>"YOU CANNOT RUN THIS COMMAND AS ROOT"
>"YOU MUST BE ROOT TO RUN TIHS COMMAND"
>Need sudo to install a printer
>Everything locked down, treats you like you are in a prison

And that is why there will never be a "year of the Linux desktop"

>30 yrs old

ayyy nah that is not a boomer or gen X
its gen y

this but unironically

>30 year old boomer

Uh..

but only millennial's use loonix

btw boomers are like 55 yrs old , to old for you kids lol

Ithis.

t.genX

Nice pasta.

I can't look at this man and not see downs syndrome every time

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30 year olds are millenials, which you probably already knew when making this troll thread.

based leftypol

fuck blumpf and fuck wh*te people