>on my computer, I use Linux. Do you know Linux? It's basically like a mac, if you know mac you know Linux
t. a customer of mine today
How right is she, /g/?
maybe she uses some distro with gnome or elementary OS
they're kinda similar to a mac
None right because she's wrong.
Around 60%.
If any normal, well adjusted looked at a DE like gnome or cinnamon, they would most definitely think it looks like a Mac. To most that's all that matters. They'll only realize it's different when they find the apple services missing and none of their shit software works
>she
>right
That's the simplest description you can give to the tech illiterate. Assuming you know nothing about computers, OP, she was pretty right.
Daily reminder that OS X ships with a Bash version from over a decade ago.
>>55588514
She probably uses elementary OS http://elementary.io/
>>55588651
Cinnamon is much closer to Windows than osx.
She's probably running something that gives her a large bar of icons at the bottom of her screen which is why she thinks it's 'like mac'.
I hope you replied with:
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.
>>55589048
Came just for this
>Do you know Linux?
>saying condescending shit like this
What job do you do? What is her relationship to your job?
>>55588955
You can install the newest version or even change it to mksh or something else entirely.
>>55588955
Reminder that it's because it's the last GPLv2 version
Reminder that nobody's forcing you to use that version
Reminder that not only can you upgrade to the newest Bash, but also switch to a different shell
>>55590205
Reminder that you should poo in the loo.
>>55590029
he's selling a macbook, probably Frys or Microcenter or Best Buy
