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Poll:It is 2023. Let us settle once and for all. Is it #Linux or GNU/Linux? Please boost for reach.

Anonymous poll

Poll

Linux
631
66.3%
GNU/Linux (GNU+Linux)
272
28.6%
I use non GNU/utils distro
12
1.3%
I don't use Linux distro :P
37
3.9%
952 people voted.
Voting ended 16 Jan 2023 at 10:47.
9 Jan 2023 at 10:47 | Open on mastodon.social
16 comments
popey

@nixCraft I voted "I don't use Linux distro" because I hate this pronunciation and gate-keeping bull-shittery. Linux has an actively bad community who push new people away by constantly nagging them when they type something "incorrectly". It's toxic.

9 Jan 2023 at 10:53 | Open on ubuntu.social
Stephen Greenham
Václav Pašek

@popey @nixCraft "Linux has an actively bad community who push new people away by constantly nagging them when they type something "incorrectly".

🤔 Interesting, I've never observed anything like this on myself, even when I started with Linux.

9 Jan 2023 at 11:14 | Open on mastodonczech.cz
Steven Dempster

@popey @nixCraft some people are very pedantic when it comes to describing Linux. It's only in the last five years I've got back into it and self taught. You either get the aggressive ones or the comedians that recommend RM * -rf and the like.....

9 Jan 2023 at 11:52 | Open on mastodon.world
gabboman

@nixCraft Allow me to interject for a moment, what you are refering as "Linux" is actually Systemd/Linux

9 Jan 2023 at 10:54 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
JC

@nixCraft
I say: Linux
Write: GNU/Linux
Care: No, because the last thing I think we need is more cultural division.

Whatever you wanna call it, let's make great things together ✌️

9 Jan 2023 at 10:55 | Open on social.librem.one
Atomic Birdseed

@jc @nixCraft I say: "Linux", I write 'Linux", but it's GNU/Linux, and no-one really cares.

9 Jan 2023 at 11:01 | Open on mastodon.au
Hacker Memes

@nixCraft it's ironic that :stallman: was so against patents yet insisted that the entire linux project prefixed with his GNU/ 'trademark' just cause he wrote some of the user mode apps.

9 Jan 2023 at 11:01 | Open on infosec.exchange
Stevan

@nixCraft Have a glass half full for thinking this will settle the question once and for all! 🥃
😃

9 Jan 2023 at 11:02 | Open on mastodon.scot
Marcel Schindler 🎹

@nixCraft It's Linux for me.
But usually I google for ubuntu+"the problem I have" because Ubuntu has the biggest userbase and so I usually find the solution for my problems.

Oh and I think Linux "hardliners" are bad for the community.

9 Jan 2023 at 11:04 | Open on retrotroet.com
Antifa Franklin 🇵🇸

@nixCraft I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus Linux

9 Jan 2023 at 11:12 | Open on jorts.horse
jorol

@nixCraft Interesting article about this topic: "The limited utility of the phrase GNU/Linux" seirdy.one/posts/2022/12/09/li

9 Jan 2023 at 11:38 | Open on openbiblio.social
Gary Parker

@nixCraft just "linux", if only to upset Stallman and his troll-army, frankly

9 Jan 2023 at 11:40 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Kristofer Rawlins
Karl Levik Ⓥ

@nixCraft Strictly speaking, it's GNU/Linux, but it's not important. Other major OSes that use the Linux kernel such as Android and Chrome OS don't even have 'Linux' in their names, so the scope for confusion by omitting the GNU part in the name is small.

9 Jan 2023 at 12:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
Velinion

@nixCraft
I see this as depending on need specificity. Linux in casual conversation, but GNU/Linux when needing to differentiate with a non-GNU distro. I do think it is formally and properly GNU/Linux but then I don't usually speak formally and properly!

9 Jan 2023 at 12:26 | Open on dice.camp
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