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Zeon@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world ·
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The lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, could've heard about the GNU/Linux operating system.

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The lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, could've heard about the GNU/Linux operating system.

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    some say if he knew about mint, he would still be with us today

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      I don’t get it…

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        I took it as: “Mint is the just-works-distro so you don’t want to shoot yourself in the face constantly.”.

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        They said mint, not mind

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    Cobain died in April 1994.

    The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.

    So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.

    But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.


    ¹ It wasn’t called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

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      Floppy disks💀

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    Are you implying that’s why he killed himself?

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      I assumed it was his realization that his art was being exploited and his girlfriend sexually assaulted by a system he willingly entered for financial benefit and he couldn’t do a damn thing about it but that fits too.

      Explains why he didn’t shoot an executive instead.

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    What?

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      Yeah, I don’t get it either. Of course Kurt Cobain knows Linux. The private security of the island where Cobain, Elvis, 2Pac and the others live, runs on Linux.

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      I think it’s meant to be a “Cleopatra is closer to us than the building of the great pyramid” or something like that, but I’m not sure either.

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        TIL Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of floppy disks than Kurt Kobain did to wooly mammoths

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    Here’s a better one. Blackbeard could have worn sunglasses.

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      Mayans could’ve studied at oxford

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        Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.

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    But he never got to use GPS, and that makes Helen Mirren sad.

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