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Comment by bryanlarsen

5 days ago

Both Chrome and Aluminium are Linux, so which are you trying to say is better?

Or are you saying more conventional Linux is superior? Gnu/Linux is a good term for that.

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bigstrat2003  5 days ago

When someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".

  • bryanlarsen  4 days ago

    They didn't say Linux in isolation, they said it on a comment on a story that mentions two Linux non-conventional distributions and has no mention of conventional Linux. Therefore the presumption is that they're referring to the Linuxes in the article.

  • surajrmal  5 days ago

    I prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

    • pxc  4 days ago

      > The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

      What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?

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dontlaugh  5 days ago

It’s not a great term, there is a small and shrinking proportion of GNU in most distros. Things like systemd or Wayland are far more important.