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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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A thought just hit me -- "Windows = The HOA of operating systems" (lemmy.one)

submitted 5 days ago by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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An HOA (home owners associations) can say what color you can paint your house, What you can plant in your yard, What you can have in your driveway, and some even say what color your blinds can be.

Microsoft controls your computer, they say what info is sent back to Microsoft, and they say when you must upgrade. They can shut down your computer when they want whether you like it or not.

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I haven't had an update forced on me on my work machine ever

If you're having the house fumigated, or making some renovations you'd have to be out of the house for a bit

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Funny, that Linux manages to 1) Tell you when updates are available and leaves it up to you to apply them 2) Apply updates quickly, rarely over a minute. 3) Even more rarely requires a reboot. Because of these three features, I am usually more than happy to install an update any time one is available when I come to a convenient point to do so.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The first two are not true on my distro

People complain about being notified about windows updates all the time, and they generally install quietly in the background for me while I get on with my work

The only time I consciously update is when I get wind of a CVE

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Debian lights up an icon in the System Tray. When I am ready I can either click on that icon to bring up the package manager GUI or I can open a Konsole window and run 'sudo nala update' then 'sudo nala upgrade'. (Nala is a beautiful front end for apt)

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Nix to my knowledge doesn't have anything like that at least by default

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

You must be the one person I've ever seen saying that. I remember up to windows 7 and some time with 10 that updates would just wait for you (assuming you configured it to wait) and I would update when ready to shit down. But I've seen 10/11 just kick people out over an update way too many times to know it's. I configured my wife's computer to not update at all unless I actively told it to, and it she woke up to windows 11 one day (which I appreciate because that was the trigger for her to love to Fedora, lol).