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Originally Posted by GERGE
Yes, then you are using Linux. Just because you don't know how to use it, even know that you are actually using it, doesn't mean that you do not use it. You are clearly using something with a Linux kernel after all. You make use of Linux.
If you determine using something as knowing how to use internals well, then you could even claim those using Ubuntu or Arch as their OS doesn't use Linux. My aunt uses Xubuntu but only opens Chrome and LibreOffice. That is all. I don't think she even knows how to use the file manager. Is she a Chrome user, or Linux user? Again, you could build same analogy for Chrome and OS X too.
Using something and knowing how to use something are quite different.
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I don't think any Arch user could possibly not know how their system works, actually. This is an OS that requires knowledge of the command line even to apply updates, and in some cases,
manual intervention as well. Any system management must be done via editing configuration files -- unlike most distros these days,
there is no GUI alternative.
And I am afraid I cannot agree with your claim that using an embedded linux microcontroller makes one a linux user.
Your aunt is a linux user, as is an Android or ChromeOS user. Someone whose toaster or Kindle or washing machine uses linux is not.
If you stretch far enough, you could claim that anyone who uses google is a linux user because: google servers run linux and they use google, so must be they use linux.
At a certain point it merely becomes pathetic.