It’s not differentiating between “casual Linux users” or “real Linux users,” Valve’s Steam does not belong in the GNU operating system (GNU/Linux) since it forces users to install a nonfree interface and also invites users to be subject to DRM (though it is optional for developers to enable or not). The problem is not Steam’s role as a content distribution manager (handling payments, delivering files), but the fact that it restricts the users freedom through their steam client (which there are no viable free software solutions to).
If a discussion of free software unnerves you, I don’t care. But to label this as a conflict between “casual vs real, normie vs elite” is just unironically doing what this meme is mocking in the first place.
I think what they were specifying was the role GNU plays in that sentence. Personally I don’t like calling one GNU/Linux and the other Linux, but the defining point of GNU is that it’s uses only free open source software, and does not contain any non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.
It’s not differentiating between “casual Linux users” or “real Linux users,” Valve’s Steam does not belong in the GNU operating system (GNU/Linux) since it forces users to install a nonfree interface and also invites users to be subject to DRM (though it is optional for developers to enable or not). The problem is not Steam’s role as a content distribution manager (handling payments, delivering files), but the fact that it restricts the users freedom through their steam client (which there are no viable free software solutions to).
If a discussion of free software unnerves you, I don’t care. But to label this as a conflict between “casual vs real, normie vs elite” is just unironically doing what this meme is mocking in the first place.
Here we go.
Who are you to decide what does and does not belong on Linux?
I think what they were specifying was the role GNU plays in that sentence. Personally I don’t like calling one GNU/Linux and the other Linux, but the defining point of GNU is that it’s uses only free open source software, and does not contain any non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.
I didn’t the license did :)
GNU preaches free software. Steam is nonfree. I think they’re just trying to point that out.