'I've never installed gnu/linux' - Richard Stallman

[ozzell]

Stallman doesn't own a computer. He sometimes visit people's houses to use their computers.

[aleksandarglisic]

"I just load emacs directly into the memory and never turn my machine off"

[rijaja]

Richard stallman: I've never installed GNU/Linux. [...] There was always someone I could ask to do it for me."

Linus Torvalds: "I've never used Debian, installing it is too hard"

Guys I think we're overqualified

[shamanahaboolist]

lol he's never had any need since he communicates directly to the hardware with with his fingers on the 1 and 0 button. :)

[samfreelancer]

He doesn't install it he using it on live mode.

[BopBopBaLaLa]

Richard Stallman is not really a Gnu/Linux developer/programmer/coder anymore and hasn't been for a long time. He could be described as a full time advocate for free software but more accurately he is a philosopher about free software in particular about the destruction of privacy and the implications for humanity. At times he has seemed strange because he was describing a world that didn't exist yet and most people were unable to imagine. Now many might consider that regarding Richard Stallman as a philosopher is an overstatement but consider that your rulers/governments are developing the tools to know everything about you, and everything you do as you are doing do it. The implications of this are existential for humanity both on the level of the individual and humanity as a whole. Richard Stallman was describing this situation many years before Snowden's revelations, many years before smart phones even, and at the time his views were largely dismissed as paranoid and just plain wrong even by the linux community.

We are heading to a world where an individual's life experience will be inauthentic and contrived, where freewill will be an illusion, and you will make choices that you are unaware have already been made for you. It will be a world were the consequences of attempting to 'drop-out' will be non-existence.

So I'm not surprised that Richard Installman has never installed Gnu/Linux. I would not be surprised if he has never sent an email. And I am not surprised that people are still failing to hear that he is not talking about software, he is talking about human freedom and how it is in danger.

[PauloConstantino]

So GNU/Richard_Stallman never installed GNU/Linux ? What a GNU/Pity.

[lordhriley]

Richard Stallman was only making the point you do not have to master the installation process to enjoy Linux, you can find the information on a forum with knowledgeable people.

Example I wanted to install puppy Linux on an old laptop, I had no idea how to do it. But on the online forums I found the information to do it. Sa ve

[minhajsixbyte]

that is because he secretly uses GNU/Hurd

[ysink]

"Find someone who loves installing the system"

Sorry what

[tohur]

No one in my Family has ever installed Linux in their life but use it every single day.. I do all the installing and maintenance in my house so yes there are folks that have NEVER installed it but use it everyday

[marcusmeaney]

I swear just when I thought RMS couldn't meme any harder

[landoc]

This man is a Prophet. A Prophet doesn't waste his time with menial tasks like installing Trisquel and replacing the BIOS of his Thinkpad with Libreboot. He just left one of his acolytes do it.

[mjp]

I've seen this before, and am still surprised that he's never installed it for himself.

[higharcangle]

Why install an operating system, when you can sed emacs into RAM?

[pierrefur]

he never installed linux.First he used gnu /hurd on debian. It seems to be his own kernel. second he always compile the kernel from scratch or more further he rewrite each time a new kernel. lol

[CptMooney]

You know, he does have a point there. I for my part wouldve been totally lost, back at the end of the 80's, if it werent for kind users who took their time
to help me(without asking for anything in return) setting up my very first PC. This is actually good advice for a new user.
Not that it wouldnt startle me, how someone wouldnt develop the itch to check it out for him-/herself over the course of several decades, but he does
have a point when it comes to newbies should seek an expirienced users guidance/help regardless.

[lachicadesistemas]

To be honest, I agree with him. I am a linux developer and I have been using linux since 1997. I am 40 years old now. The last time I distro hopped was around 2004. I have used debian until a few years ago when I switched to red hat enterprise and have not moved from this distro ever since. I upgrade my system without reinstalling the OS. I despise wasting time installing and configuring my machine when I can use all that energy on my software whether is writing new code or maintaining some.

As I grow older, I steer away from shiny glittery new things or these clones of debian which pretend to be the holy grail of linux and are just hobbyst operating systems but nowhere near the degree of stability a developer or sysadmin actually needs.

In a few years time I hope I get someone to install my distros and set my work environment the way I need it for myself.

[JJEvans-qp]

Your royal highness. How would you like your btrfs partition.

[kilomancer]

really makes ur synapses fire off at calculated intercals within the cerebelum