TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards

mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.ml – 205 points –

Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don't: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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Please stop calling it gun/Linux UNLESS you also use

  • Firestone/bus
  • chisel/David
  • vacuum/Danielle Smith

Etc.

I don't understand a single example you gave. I always call it Linux. But, what?

Linux is the kernel, useless without actual programs to run on it. In general the minimal set of programs to make a Linux system actually useful (cd, ls, cat, ...) are provided by the coreutils package, a GNU project.

RMS, the founder of GNU, was pissed that people were using Linux + his software and simply calling it Linux, so he insisted that the proper generic name for "Linux" distributions was actually "GNU/Linux" (i.e. GNU utilities + Linux kernel).

OP's joke is that we name stuff without specifying their components or needed tools all the time, so we shouldn't bother doing it for Linux.

Yeah, I understood all of that. I didn't understand the examples. Chisel, David, etc..

Michelangelo's David is a well-known marble statue which was carved using a chisel.

Please stop lecturing people about how to talk.

I don't get it, why would you even be mad about someone referring it as GNU/Linux?

In that case it's even just either X org or the wayland compositor that may implement that, not "linux".

But why would you call this linux when this is not linux specific thing anyway

I mean, we live in a world where there are multiple use cases for non-GNU/Linux (i.e. Alpine). Surely the distinction has become useful.

Yes, thank you! Just call it Linux.

I think going of out your way to type four more letters shows appropriate appreciation for the historical significance of the GNU project.

I think that sort of pedantry over semantics is one of the reasons the Linux community has such a bad reputation.

You vlassifying it as "pedantry" supports my point. It's also ironic, considering you told somebody else to not call it GNU+Linux instead of the other way around.

pedantry over semantics

Just call it Linux

Pick one.

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