• macniel
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    03 months ago

    Would you say that Windows is cis and Linux is trans?

            • Rob Bos
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              3 months ago

              Not necessarily, I find it moronic too. Like why is it even a discussion? Let people do what they want. It doesn’t harm anyone and might make them a lot happier.

              • KillingTimeItself
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                33 months ago

                idk it’s one of those weird things. I’ve adopted the strategy of "i dont care, unless it’s something principally important to me. I do go around shitposting shower thoughts i’ve had from time to time though. This is one of those situations im guessing.

                i think part of the problem is the polarization. It’s so aggressive now that communities have started openly and regularly speaking about it, in order to naturally flush out the other party. It also has the secondary affect of creating an openly explicit safe space, which is an interesting concept.

              • @knightly
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                03 months ago

                That attitude tends to piss off conservatives. =3

              • @knightly
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                23 months ago

                All discussions are made up.

              • @AVincentInSpace
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                13 months ago

                What business is it of yohrs what people identify as?

                Let people express themselves how they want. What discussion is there to be had?

      • @mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        Linux is

        I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

        Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

        There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

        [I’m sorry, could not resist.]

      • callyral [he/they]
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        13 months ago

        Linux is an operating system. So is Windows. Hardware is hardware.

        errm, ackshually, as you said, windows and linux are both operating systems. therefore, they’re actually software, not hardware 🤓

    • ailouroboros
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      143 months ago

      I switched to Linux around the same time I came out to myself, so yeah…

        • KillingTimeItself
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          23 months ago

          i switched to linux like 4 years ago. So far nothing has happened yet.

          I’m starting to wonder if 50% of users end up realizing who they are, and the other 50% end up going on to do actual good in the world.

      • mac
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        73 months ago

        c/unixsocks and c/unixporn seem to be rather trans dense populations as well.

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        Seems to fit. The Apple apple in the logo was rainbow-striped between 1977 and 1998.

        The colours were in the order 432165 though, so an argument otherwise might be possible. Is it possible to be agy or bselnai?

        (And why does that read like Hungarian? I looked it up. “agy” means “brain”. this is a deep conspiracy! ~is dragged off screaming~)