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What you're referring to as Linux is actually SystemD/GRUB/GNU/Linux/Wayland+Pipewire+XDG/{Desktop Environment | Window Manager Stack}

Far more valid than Stallman's coat-tailing.

Imagine thinking that the guy who invented the concept of Free Software and built an entire compiler toolchain and userspace is "coat-tailing" on the guy who only made a kernel.

Sure, Linus and Richard get praised for making GNU Linux. But when I tried to make by own, the zoo kicked me out of the water buffalo enclosure.

The hard part is getting the USB stick in.

GNU/Linux/Apt/Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/Wayland/Systemd/Firefox/KDE/Pipewire/SDDM/Libreoffice/Supertuxkart

That guy looks like Dr. Kleiner from Half Life 2.

Just without the ridiculous tie.

Surely you mean LinuX11.

For some reason I read that in my head as luckynumbershlevin

I'll have what this person's having 👆🤣

Someone send this to Stallman, so he can later download, print and view it at his pleasure.

By now I'm fully convinced Stallman was right.
I bet life is a lot nicer without JavaScript.

Huh, the Internet King. I wonder if he can provide faster nudity.

Janeway, less the final brassiere

It's not, because the x in Linus' Unix is not referring to the windowing system:

Linux Journal: Is it true that you suggested the name "UNIX" for the long ago OS, Multics? What does that word mean?

Brian Kernighan: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken's new system, because it was small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can remember who.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035

I know one guy who likes putting the letter X everywhere...

DMX?

So that's what his name means. Display Manager for X11.

Brian Kernighan's book UNIX: A History and a Memoir is a great read for anyone interested in the history of computing.

LinUX like Linus User Experience?

I agree, GNU/Linux is awkward and dumb.

So I just call it "GNU."

What should I call it, when there isn't anything GNU installed? Uutils? Llvm?