Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I think that sort of pedantry over semantics is one of the reasons the Linux community has such a bad reputation.

    • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      You vlassifying it as “pedantry” supports my point. It’s also ironic, considering you told somebody else to not call it GNU+Linux instead of the other way around.

    • jack
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      1 year ago

      pedantry over semantics

      Just call it Linux

      Pick one.