TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards
TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards
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
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ah yes, Linux clipboard documentation: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/touch-and-input/copy-paste
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.
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I think going of out your way to type four more letters shows appropriate appreciation for the historical significance of the GNU project.
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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.
Mimimimimimi
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Ok, Stallman