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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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This gets posted like once per week and this is inaccurate as shit.
"Wayland is bad, it can't run xorg programs"
Ok but there is an exact copy of the program that is made for Wayland. It's the same argument that Windows users use to discredit Linux .
"Linux is bad because it can't run programs that were made for Windows"