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

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 21 pts · 1y (4 replies)

some say if he knew about mint, he would still be with us today

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I don't get it....

Iapar@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
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abbadon420@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

They said mint, not mind

NedRyerson@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 202d

Oh well, whatever, nevermind

fubo@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Floppy disks💀

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Are you implying that's why he killed himself?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

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.

tisktisk@piefed.social · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What?

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

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.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

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

stevedice@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Mayans could've studied at oxford

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.

executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

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