• @fubo
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    11 days ago

    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.

  • @PapaStevesy
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    1411 days ago

    Are you implying that’s why he killed himself?

    • @[email protected]
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      211 days ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      711 days ago

      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
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      411 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 days ago

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

  • Steve Dice
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    611 days ago

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