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what you’re referring to as leenux, is in fact, GNU/leenux (quokk.au)
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[–] Linearity@piefed.zip 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Top 10 things that never happened (this takes all 10 spots)

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

That aunt? Albert Einstein.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

How is this unbelievable? My father asked me to switch his computer to Linux years ago because he hated windows 8.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And everyone clapped

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

I've done this though
I just did it over Christmas visits.
Well actually what I did was run updates and write a script that removes Windows' hiberfiles from an external disk drive

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

This definitely happened, I was the aunt.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I hope OP did the right thing and set gamgam up with Arch.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Fuck

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It seems that Grandma is pronouncing it the same way Linus does,, most people are saying "leen-ix"

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I say "Lynn-ucks", I learned it by reading, it's too late for me to change now