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Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

146 comments
Kabit (/^ₓ^\) θΔ ~ 🔜ish ANE

@lynnesbian this is something beautiful

srsly they had the GNU+linux conversation on work slack :/

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

i license this shitpost as CC4-BY-NC-SA. you cannot use it to profit from or in any commercial work, you must attribute me if it is used by you, and other shitposts using it must adhere to the same license

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

this post is more than double mastodon's default 500 character limit, and about fifty chars over pleroma's 1024 limit. if you wish to copy my shitpost you need an instance with custom character limits :blobbuncoffee2:

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

if i posted this on twitter i'd have to split it across six posts oof

the electric biscuit

@lynnesbian ha, haha, look at me reusing your post for profit by boosting it
An action I can take even though my instance has a 512 limit
Foiled again lynne

O wait I don’t profit from boosting good posts, the creator does
Foiled again by lynne

Eragon

@lynnesbian Hey, here is someone from the future, pleroma default's now at 5000 chars. We can shitpost even more now !

djsumdog

@lynnesbian Alpine doesn't have any GNU utils?! I knew it used muscl, but it doesn't use the GNU file-utils?

mort

@djsumdog Alpine uses busybox, not GNU coreutils

djsumdog

@lynnesbian I feel like this story just works with anyone vs Stallman (or RMS-believer). I'm getting tired of the entire man/woman-splaining thing. There are know-it-alls who talk down to everyone around them, and it doesn't really matter if they're a woman or a man. Talking down to people is shitty.

I mean I know it's just a story/satire/joke and I shouldn't care, but I dunno ... term still doesn't sit right with me .. but hey, I learned something about Alpine ^_^

Sally Strange

@djsumdog

I'm tired of men being tired of jokes about mansplaining

Here's a meaningless personal anecdote and an emoji to deflect a bit from the hostility in that :P

The Best Patrick ☭

@lynnesbian Richard Stallman deliberately named his system something dumb as a joke about how dumb it sounded, and then got all mad when people didn't want to use his dumb name. Friggin' foresight, dude...

Aunt Swiggony

@thebestpatrick @lynnesbian

well to be fair a lot of stuff that was named goofy shit has caught on over the years, so I think he was incensed he lost the goofy name for a thing lottery

zalandocalrissian

@thebestpatrick @lynnesbian

yeah, why would you name your project after some random large mammal?

~ sent from my Mastodon account

Cybre Rick

@lynnesbian And the girl's name was Albert Einstein!

🌞 Chupacabra 🌞

@lynnesbian I need to put on some weight so I can tattoo this post on my ass

kew

@lynnesbian this is it, the best toot of 2019

→ @Shamar@framapiaf.org

@lynnesbian

ehm.. ma'am...
what's the license of your kernel?
I can't recall it, really...

🤣

(great write up, but... 😉)

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@lynnesbian

"It uses neither core utils, GCC or other GNU code...":

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

if you boosted this without properly understanding it i have ONE thing to say to you: you're valid and i love you

Neea

@lynnesbian I get like 50% of the post and it's still funny as hell.

🌈 elin ✨

@Neea @lynnesbian getting the rest of the joke doesn’t make it better it just makes you feel tired

Bruce Heerssen

@lynnesbian
I feel seen, possibly attacked. Well done.

Shawn K. Quinn

@lynnesbian Linux is still not the operating system, there has to be some other libc/userland in its place, even if it's something freakish like Android.

wink has joined the channel

@lynnesbian Now I really wonder if there's an alpine userland with HURD... :P

Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

@lynnesbian if things being compiled with GCC make them GNU projects I would like to see Richard Stallman's contributions to Dwarf Fortress.

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

@Ronflaix on my instance it has 463 on my end but i like yours better :thinknyan:

ardydo

@lynnesbian I read this imagining it as a Yu-Gi-Oh duel and it got even better

rodia

@bic @lynnesbian lol now there are various experiments to compile the kernel with Clang-LLVM, one of which will be presented at the fosdem.

BTW I can still go by GNU-coreutils :)

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

i've never had Numbers™ this high in my life and im so happy this is the post that gets it

Ghosty Hannah

@lynnesbian this one might be your magnum opus. I read it again every time you boost it

Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻

@lynnesbian my response to "actually it's GNU Linux" is "go eat your own foot nerd"

e-wastrel

@vegetablegremlin RMS loves the toe cheese

we ALL love the toe cheese

Sunset Moved

@lynnesbian congratulations on over 100 favorites and nearly 400 boosts on this, lynne

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

i don't think there are any more people on the fediverse to boost this

Trucy

@lynnesbian now I want to run alpine or any non-gnu linux distro

your friend

@lynnesbian *sits quietly crisscross-applesauce to find out what happens next*

omɘᴎ ☄️

@lynnesbian Duel of nerds : clash of fates ! Lifes will be lost, minds will be crushed !

Kiley, Deer

@lynnesbian this is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.

axiom

@lynnesbian I met stallman and he made me carry his groceries down the hall

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

this makes me wonder what the most boosted and faved posts are on fedi

of course there's no way to really check that but

vx. redgrave, heir of mind

@lynnesbian that makes my 40 two years ago look positively childs play in comparison.

good luck and godspeed

Hallow Hoppet :heart_trans: 🎃

@lynnesbian i mean, i personally think it's one of your best posts i've seen

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

someone posted this on 4chan, and then it got popular (2000 upvotes) on reddit: reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/c

just when i thought this post couldn't get any more attention :p

dick_turpin

@lynnesbian Still uses init and compiling, how quaint.

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

holy shit this post is nearly a year old at this point what the fuck

it's that goddamn constant linear progression of time at it again

Dee 💜
@lynnesbian I saw it reposted by two other people today, copypasta-style, so I guess it's now essentially eternal
Freyaday
@lynnesbian
I'm so fucking salty about Linux being in "C89 but it sucks so we made our own nonstandard custom language". I don't like C to begin with (another topic for another day) and C89 is worse. Gnu89 does nothing to fix that. Either upgrade your language or actually take the plunge and make a better one, not this half-assed bullshit that deletes any concept of interop.
Zulgrib

@lynnesbian While about mansplaining, most pleasing part of it is screw GNU zealots.

DELETED

@lynnesbian Ah once again this classic script blesses my visual-sensor orbs with its poetic delight

xorman

@lynnesbian oh yeah, fuck GNU, right?
I don't get the hate.

Daniel Bohrer

@lynnesbian I will never stop reboosting this toot as it comes into my timeline.

Nicolai von Neudeck

@lynnesbian is that gem exclusive to masto or can I link to it on the birdie hellsite? It is so good, I want others to see it.

Renere

@lynnesbian wait WHAT i never knew this copypasta originated here ksdjsjsk

Dragonfire

@lynnesbian The best writing I've ready in forever!!!

Doctor Memory

@lynnesbian I wish I could like this as many time as it deserves to be liked.

Lapo Luchini

@lynnesbian All hail #LLVM!

PS: I use FreeBSD, and sometimes people kill me by asking «never heard of it, it's a new distro?».

Andrew (bookseller era)

@lynnesbian Is this the most popular fedi post? I haven't seen anything else hit close to 1000 boosts.

Richard Barrell

@lynnesbian I'm genuinely surprised it isn't already compiled with clang. 😊

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

this has HOW MANY BOOSTS NOW??

i've seen screenshots of it from 4chan, and i've encountered it multiple times on reddit, often with the "womansplaining" joke removed. it's honestly surreal to see something i wrote spread so far. i created a copypasta and it's a weird feeling

takin' a break

@lynnesbian right after the November 22s got here I made a post that went so viral it had over 1000 boosts here and got a shoutout in a trans rights hack lmao the fedi has changed

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

@juliana
oh damn, that's awesome

yeah it used to be that like, 20 boosts was Going Viral

crab

@lynnesbian fedi may have changed but this is still the greatest post on here

shrimp eating mammal 🦐

@lynnesbian i love reading this classic tale during the holiday season

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@lynnesbian

I noticed that every time this post mentions Linux it does so with a lower case "L", despite it being a name.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but it did make me curious if there was an intentional purpose behind that?

Just curious...

Oh and boosting (again) in an attempt to make boosting this a Fediverse Xmas tradition. 😉

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

@Blort
the whole post is in lowercase, except for the initialism GNU, since initialisms are always uppercase

there's not really a reason for it - that's just the way i write things online. when i'm writing documentation or other important/formal stuff, i do capitalise linux.

Your Favorite Baritenor

@lynnesbian @motoridersd I do actually use a #GNU #Linux distro. If, instead, My kernel and utils were built with Clang, and I used some other *nix tool set, it would just be Linux as kernel, right?

Stan Wonn 🏳️‍🌈 🌹

@lynnesbian @motoridersd Understood almost none of that, but it was still funny nonetheless! 👍

ADisorderlyFashion

@lynnesbian Every time I see this, I want to see someone make an animation of this happening

Alex :NixOS:

@lynnesbian a teacher told me that GNU projects are those licensed under the GPL.

Alex Q

@lynnesbian wasn't even on masto when this thing blow up, feels like history

shroomie/joan

@lynnesbian ok serious question: why does it matter whether or not it’s GNU/Linux?

hexaheximal

@lynnesbian wait what. could it be?... the origin of this copypasta?

:ancomheart: Manu

@lynnesbian
This is the most satisfying post in the whole fediverse

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