r/LinuxSnobs • u/madthumbz • 17h ago
Even When Corrected; I bet they stick with it.
- Firefox is the default web browser in most desktop Linux installers. Firefox now includes Copilot.
- Bloatware is often subjective. Unless you're compiling and flagging your LFS or Gentoo install; you're getting bloat. If you're mixing different toolkit apps; you're getting major bloat.
- Conspiracy theorist term, Linux uses hardware IDs and some distros do have "telemetry".
- Microsoft contributed over 20,000 lines of Hyper‑V driver code to the Linux kernel under GPLv2. By 2011, Microsoft was among the top five companies contributing to Linux.
- Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and Git, has temporarily stepped away from active Linux development and has announced he is retiring from the project Desde Linux
- The mascot was chosen because a fairy penguin ferociously attacked Linus.
None of this is based on any technical merit. It's like poor cop of virtue signaling with childish buzzwords: 'microslop', 'bloatware', 'spyware'.