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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).

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[–] macattack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use Arch and I lol'd.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I Arched for like 4 years or so, and now I NixOS. Got somewhat tired of modifying configs in 100500 places and eventually forgetting what exactly I've changed 😅

Nevertheless, I still think arch is great, and, as a side note, it does provide a good understanding of Linux on the upper-low level (not like LFS or even gentoo, but still very much viable).