Yeah, but... but... like, but... if you just explain it, you'll put people off. You've got to get them to install it first so that they get hooked.

I know it is an obvious term for you techbros, but kernel means nothing to your average person though. I would doubt most of them would even know what an OS is (especially abbreviated like that).

Thanks for the lol of today.

Best explanation of what KERNEL is, it's like car engine and all electronics around it. It's all hidden under the hood, but makes the whole thing run.

Cars have been around for long enough that even non techy people understand at least the crudest basics and this helps them understand computer things when used as analogy.

Linux is like windows but not corporate and nerds lovingly made it and you have lots of choice and freedom and there's a penguin and a fox girl and she's trans

checkmate it was super easy

So it's like the start menu? (j/k)

Naah!

It's what starts the start menu.

So linux is the CPU?

Then Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Windows.

Still working on the documentation eh?

Look, just take this pill.

Absolutely

As someone who's worked on other people's cars, you're giving people way too much credit for knowing stuff about cars...

I have encountered people that didn't know what engine oil was even for or why it had to be changed out periodically.

Live boot isos are also available

If Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Windows..

What is RedHat then? Just Corpo Windows without the nerd part?

Let's ask Richard Stallman to explain Linux.

Can't. He's in Dorcia and they won't let us in.

You take the red pill, you wake up to the real world.

You take the blue pill, you keep dreaming.

You take the green pill, you just get to… try reality out?

Ubuntu is the corporate business owner that got its starting capital from running a brick-and-mortar shop.

RHEL is the offspring of corporate business owners with generational wealth.

Now eat this random pill I found

It's important to make sure reality is compatible with your hardware.

I'll just die instead, thanks Morph

Maybe Morpheus meant that no one can explain it and also be believed. 😅

An OS is basically a broker of hardware resources for applications. And usually ships with some of its own applications. That’s a pretty fair explanation?

Yeah. If Cyrus knew that, he wouldn't have had to reinstall vista, by turning on all his buds

The funny part of the original scene is that that is exactly what Morpheus himself does when Neo is outside the Matrix—tells him what the Matrix is.

This is one of a few different examples (in that film and the others) that give credence to reading Morpheus as less trustworthy than he is styled. He should maybe be doubted more often.

what is a broker?

Yeah, but clearly this is a difference between knowledge and understanding.

no.. you misu.. I have not just found it, of course! I am bringing it from the most delicate source of pills!

It's not only for operating systems, though.

They don't need to. But they know what an engine is, don't they? Even if they know nothing else about it? It's the part of the car that goes vroom and makes everything else possible.

broker /brō′kər/

noun

1. One that acts as an agent for others, as in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales in return for a fee or commission.

Ubuntu...

dual boot goes F2F2F2F2F2F2F2F2F2F2F2

Someone who (somehow) has less money than me

So it's an init system?

I'm reminded of this book I had as a kid. It explained so many things so easily. It explained how an ICE works by using analogous items you'd already know as a kid for every part of the engine. For example, for the fuel injector it showed a perfume spray bottle. It was brilliant, and why it was never required reading in school is a mystery and tragedy.

Maybe they mean embedded systems where full OS isn't required. Just the kernel and busybox.

It's what the init system goes to, to do the real work.

Linux... snacks on something from his foot is not an operating system itself. It is merely the kernel, a part of the GNU slash Linux, or, as I've recently started to call it, GNU plus Linux operating system.

There is no Windows.

Would you like copilot to upload your death to onedrive for “enhanced productivity”?

It's a government agency in the United Kingdom called the Ordnance Survey. They make all the maps.

I was originally set up to help defend against catholic rebellions so it is historically linked to the army. That's probably where the Colonel comes in to it.

https://xkcd.com/566/