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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A quick summary of this [frankly, rather crappy] article boils down to "I don't understand, why people ignore the 4% of ChromeOS usage when talking about the 3% of Linux usage?" written in the most facepalm-worthy way, spamming fallacies like there was no tomorrow:

"Which is also Linux, but the wrong kind of Linux." - strawman
"which means that [desktop Linux]¹ has less than half of the [desktop Linux]² market." - ambiguity ("1" refers to a subset of "2")
"It's not a typical Linux, because typical Linuxes are tools for nerdy hacker types, and that kind of OS will never, ever go mainstream unless someone forces people to use it" - begging the question + ad hominem
"So naturally the Forces of FOSS hate it. Of course they do. And how do they express that contempt? By saying it's not a True Linux." - repeating the strawman again, for an ad nauseam

Also note that the same type of stupid reasoning from the article would also "prove" that MacOS is a *BSD.

What a weird hill to die on.