Of all the forums on the subject I found out that the arch l

Not to mention hostility of people I was contacting on the github. How is this Linux thing will be user friendly ever if the people who want to research and learn something about it are greeted with retaliance instead?

>>59413905
Forums in general are elitist shitholes. Combine that with a userbase of virgin neets and their meme distro and you have a recipe for disaster.

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>>59414011
Now am I supposed to go through the source code of each program to understand anything? Aren't forums suppoesed for SHARING experience and not your personal views on a specific person? I thought it linux was about computers and not fashion.

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<- my ass right now

>>59413905
r/linux and /fglt/ is more toxic. Every community have its asshole BTW.

>>59413905
Gentoo forums and IRC are based.

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>>59413971

Great thread

>>59413905
kill urself

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>>59413905
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.