Year of The Linux Desktop - GNU Not Required

I hope this year is good to all of you, and better than the last year, we're all going to make it Linux bros!

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[yb]

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 and drops 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 you were correct, you wont 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.

edit: Since this is now a visible comment I would like to dearly congratulate mental outlaw on hitting 1M+ views on one of his videos and achieving 200k subs, definitely a long way came since the days of being deepfake blackface luke

[Flyingclam]

Nerds debate about GNU vs Non- GNU Linux. While the average person goes

"What's a GNU?"

[lorenzo]

Finally the best type of content on the internet

[wallyhackenslacker]

It makes me sad in a way, how GNU is slowly becoming more and more irrelevant with each passing year. Nothing will take away it's pioneering work in booting up the FOSS world of today, but even then, it's still somewhat disheartening. Nothing lives forever, I suppose. And despite everything, green is still my pepper, and as long as GNU and FOSS in general are still around, I'll still be there to support them.
My best wishes for this year, man! May you get to 1M+ subs soon!

[marc-andreservant]

Technically you can write an init program that sleeps endlessly as the only user mode program on an initramfs. You're now running just Linux, not GNU/Linux (hope you like that blinking cursor)

[patcoleman]

We cannot start a year without the yearly “xxxx will be loonix desktop year” meme.

[sdpolukhin]

The "2022 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop" may hold quite a bit of weight behind it, actually. I've discovered your channel a few months ago, and thanks to you and Luke Smith I've completely switched to arch as my daily driver late December. Thanks for making great content, please make more in the upcoming year!

[tjyfgvh]

They've done it, 100% pure linux

[ocsanik]

Me who's been using Alpine on my phone for ages: I'm 5 parallel universes ahead of you.

[limedashseven]

Switched to Linux on all of my machines on 31st thanks to you!

[Ataraxia_Atom]

I found Linux in 2021 when I was looking for something lite to run on an old laptop and i can only say that it has been a transformational experience. Now my daily machine as well as my gf's laptop is also running mint and it's been awesome. Can't wait to dive deeper.

[RobZombieHFN]

Mutahar interested me in Linux and VMs, Linus showed me that it's not that hard, Mental Outlaw gave me my tin foil hat and later when i started watching Mr Robot i knew every distro they used there. One of best decisions i made recently.

[mjdxp]

Can't wait for 2023, which will also be the year of the Linux desktop

[tarkatantapir]

One, small hop for distros

One giant leap for Linux-kind

[nixosgoddess]

OMG
POG
THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP IS

[punkeva]

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example. Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

[Being_Joe]

I wonder how FreeBSD's Linux compatability layer works there days.

[vgzxlxm]

now i can finally use linux without getting interjected for a moment and told that im in fact using GNU+Linux, not linux

[vincei]

I'm a meat connoisseur, however, I have never eaten roast GNU. I'll add it to the gourmet food to try list. Thanks.

[cariyaputta]

Everytime I build a docker image, I always use alpine. They're really minimal but have enough utilities for easy of debug, ssl certs, ...