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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.

15 Jan 2019 at 1:51 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
145 comments
Kabit (/^ₓ^\) θΔ ~ 🔜ish ANE

@lynnesbian this is something beautiful

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

15 Jan 2019 at 1:52 | Open on yiff.life
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

15 Jan 2019 at 1:54 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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:

15 Jan 2019 at 1:56 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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

15 Jan 2019 at 1:59 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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

15 Jan 2019 at 2:06 | Open on cybre.space
Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

@lynnesbian hey I wonder if I can post planepacked...

15 Jan 2019 at 8:59 | Open on mastodon.lubar.me
👻 Boo Brees

@lynnesbian this is the plot of an Asimov novel?

15 Jan 2019 at 2:00 | Open on jorts.horse
djsumdog

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

15 Jan 2019 at 2:09 | Open on hitchhiker.social
mort

@djsumdog Alpine uses busybox, not GNU coreutils

5 Jul 2023 at 11:28 | Open on fosstodon.org
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 ^_^

15 Jan 2019 at 2:22 | Open on hitchhiker.social
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

18 Jan 2019 at 14:39 | Open on eldritch.cafe
dani little ponie :dani: :transgender_flag:​
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...

15 Jan 2019 at 2:40 | Open on mastodon.social
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

16 Jan 2019 at 18:55 | Open on elekk.xyz
zalandocalrissian

@thebestpatrick @lynnesbian

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

~ sent from my Mastodon account

30 Jun 2019 at 23:34 | Open on ieji.de
Lumpenproletariat Bike Mayor
Vy-let
Cybre Rick

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

15 Jan 2019 at 5:12 | Open on cybre.space
🌞 Chupacabra 🌞

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

15 Jan 2019 at 8:57 | Open on sunbeam.city
kew

@lynnesbian this is it, the best toot of 2019

15 Jan 2019 at 9:30 | Open on sunbeam.city
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:
→ @Shamar@framapiaf.org

@lynnesbian

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

🤣

(great write up, but... 😉)

15 Jan 2019 at 10:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Rain 🚱
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@lynnesbian

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

15 Jan 2019 at 11:15 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

way too many serious replies to this

15 Jan 2019 at 16:27 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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

15 Jan 2019 at 16:35 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Nikole Tiffany Powell

@lynnesbian i understand it but treat me like i didn't pls

15 Jan 2019 at 16:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Neea

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

17 Jan 2019 at 8:29 | Open on mastodon.social
🌈 elin ✨

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

1 Oct 2019 at 16:50 | Open on girlcock.club
Bruce Heerssen

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

4 Jul 2023 at 7:53 | Open on darkmoon.social
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.

15 Jan 2019 at 17:22 | Open on octodon.social
Tardigrade 🌻
wink has joined the channel

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

15 Jan 2019 at 18:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Alonealastalovedalongthe

@lynnesbian

I want this to be an action movie

15 Jan 2019 at 22:49 | Open on toot.cafe
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:
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.

16 Jan 2019 at 6:45 | Open on mastodon.lubar.me
jackdaw_ruiz :mastodon:
Ronflaix
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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

463 faveronies
16 Jan 2019 at 6:56 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:
ardydo

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

16 Jan 2019 at 21:26 | Open on masto.donte.com.br
bic
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 :)

18 Jan 2019 at 10:55 | Open on mastodon.cisti.org
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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

18 Jan 2019 at 14:23 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Ghosty Hannah

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

18 Jan 2019 at 14:23 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻

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

18 Jan 2019 at 16:31 | Open on jorts.horse
e-wastrel

@vegetablegremlin RMS loves the toe cheese

we ALL love the toe cheese

18 Jan 2019 at 16:35 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Renalia - The Satori Mind Opened

@lynnesbian i know this is a shitpost

but i'm proud of you

18 Jan 2019 at 21:08 | Open on computerfairi.es
Sunset Moved

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

20 Jan 2019 at 19:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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

20 Jan 2019 at 20:02 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Trucy

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

20 Jan 2019 at 20:07 | Open on shelter.moe
your friend

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

27 Jan 2019 at 1:29 | Open on mastodon.xyz
omɘᴎ ☄️

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

25 Feb 2019 at 11:28 | Open on cybre.space
io_err :ancomheart:

@lynnesbian this is still your best post lynne

15 Mar 2019 at 7:40 | Open on rva.party
Kiley, Deer

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

15 Mar 2019 at 7:48 | Open on vulpine.club
Anadice
axiom

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

28 Apr 2019 at 23:22 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
The research fairy

@lynnesbian Please tell me this is a true story

30 Jun 2019 at 17:44 | Open on scholar.social
Ben Zanin
theblacksquid
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

holy fucking shit it's still going

609 boosts, 940 faves
2 Jul 2019 at 2:51 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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

2 Jul 2019 at 2:52 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
vx. redgrave, heir of mind

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

good luck and godspeed

2 Jul 2019 at 2:53 | Open on vulpine.club
Hallow Hoppet :heart_trans: 🎃

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

2 Jul 2019 at 3:08 | Open on glaceon.social
meowski
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

1 Oct 2019 at 14:28 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
dick_turpin

@lynnesbian Still uses init and compiling, how quaint.

1 Oct 2019 at 15:08 | Open on mastodon.org.uk
Hex
🇪🇺🐧lioman🐍🇪🇺

@lynnesbian or you just have GNUsplained him to death

1 Oct 2019 at 17:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

:blobcatsurprised:

will this post ever die

701 boosts, 1054 faves
2 Oct 2019 at 14:58 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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

3 Jan 2020 at 23:41 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Dee 💜
@lynnesbian I saw it reposted by two other people today, copypasta-style, so I guess it's now essentially eternal
3 Jan 2020 at 23:47 | Open on fedi.underscore.world
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.
5 Jan 2020 at 2:43 | Open on gayrobot.club
Zulgrib

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

6 Jan 2020 at 7:04 | Open on framapiaf.org
DELETED

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

18 Aug 2020 at 20:55 | Open on toot.site
xorman

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

19 Aug 2020 at 15:09 | Open on mastodon.social
Daniel Bohrer

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

3 Dec 2020 at 22:01 | Open on chaos.social
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.

3 Dec 2020 at 23:57 | Open on mastodon.social
inf0sec
Renere

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

19 Mar 2021 at 10:24 | Open on deadinsi.de
Dragonfire

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

20 Mar 2021 at 16:33 | Open on mastodon.online
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
Heidi Munksgaard
Carl Poppa 🛸
Cheryl Furse
minty :blobfoxcatsnuggle:
Doctor Memory

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

4 Jul 2023 at 16:01 | Open on m.blank.org
Daniel M Karlsson
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?».

5 Jul 2023 at 12:21 | Open on f.lapo.it
Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell
Andrew (Television Executive)

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

9 Jul 2023 at 0:06 | Open on retro.social
Richard Barrell

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

21 Jul 2023 at 0:44 | Open on unstable.systems
tiddy roosevelt
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

25 Dec 2023 at 16:23 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
lizard appreciator
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

25 Dec 2023 at 18:16 | Open on solarpunk.moe
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

@juliana
oh damn, that's awesome

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

25 Dec 2023 at 20:24 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
crab

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

25 Dec 2023 at 19:10 | Open on todon.nl
shrimp eating mammal 🦐

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

25 Dec 2023 at 16:23 | Open on octodon.social
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. 😉

25 Dec 2023 at 17:33 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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.

25 Dec 2023 at 20:23 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@lynnesbian

Lol. No problem. Was just curious if there was some 4D chess, activist reason I couldn't figure out!

Cheers!

25 Dec 2023 at 20:26 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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?

25 Dec 2023 at 19:27 | Open on queer.cool
Stan Wonn 🏳️‍🌈 🌹

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

25 Dec 2023 at 19:41 | Open on mstdn.social
ADisorderlyFashion

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

25 Dec 2023 at 19:44 | Open on mas.to
Yu Vitaqua fer Chronos🩸⏳

@lynnesbian Don't forget to mention Chimera Linux :D

25 Dec 2023 at 20:37 | Open on plural.cafe
Sleepy Josh
Alex :NixOS:

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

25 Dec 2023 at 23:33 | Open on infosec.town
Alex Q

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

26 Dec 2023 at 2:05 | Open on octodon.social
adwaita
shroomie/joan

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

26 Dec 2023 at 2:55 | Open on 0w0.is
Al Sweigart
Walnut
🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann
hexaheximal

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

26 Dec 2023 at 15:40 | Open on mastodon.social
:ancomheart: Manu

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

26 Dec 2023 at 21:37 | Open on puntarella.party
Fabián Roque
goaty goats (she) :deifirev:
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