It was not myself who deleted it, so I can only speak for my personal view here.

That Linux vs GNU/Linux argument is annoying, and people who point it out seem petty. That said deleting a comment is usually only done when it's bad.

I will get the editor who did it to reply.

Quoting: liamdaweThat Linux vs GNU/Linux argument is annoying, and people who point it out seem petty.

^This. I've never seen an overall good response to someone bringing it up. It is one of those arguments that is futile to even bring up most(ALL?) of the time. If someone REALLY is a GNU/Linux die hard such as yourself, they already know the difference and use proper terminology. I for one am a Linux user, NOT GNU/Linux. So when I say Linux, I mean it. I am all for free and open software when it works. For instance I would run the Nouveau drivers if it was an option for me, but it is not. To be clear, I don't consider switching to an AMD GPU an option.

Lastly, (AND THIS IS MY OPINION) GNU/Linux goes out the door the second you install/load ANYTHING that is not fully compilable and usable from the openly available code. If you compiled it yourself or it came precompiled from a distribution I don't think matters as long as the source is openly available and doesn't rely on a closed source firmware blob.

This particular site is about Linux gaming. Most of those games are proprietary, closed source games and Hamish plays them on Linux so he is not a GNU/Linux user either (IN MY OPINION).

I'm not looking for an argument, I'm only posting my opinion. I won't reply to any arguments for or against because as I have said they are simply my opinions and I'm not one to suddenly change my mind anyways.

I will raise my hand up for deleting it, mostly because it was completely off topic, but also because I felt that it did fall under the "comments that serve to only antagonize an article author" provision, even if I personally was not really offended by it. That being said, it was in no way relevant to the article, and if you wanted to raise the point with me, you should have done it in a PM. Discussing what is in my biography is in no way what the article comments section is for.

Why are there not "likes" for forum posts? I would "like" Hamish's last post if I could.

Thanks for reading and answering guys. I understand now, and admit it is legit.

Sensible discussion all around, instead of degenerating into flame war. I <3 GOL

(and welcome to Armand, yay for non-flamey Linux advocates)

Thank you :D

QuoteMy comment was about the nomination of our favorite OS. In his article Hamish say "Linux", and he is described as an advocate of the free software movement. I simply said that he should say GNU/Linux.

Surely part of the freedom of free software is to call it whatever the hell you want.

Explain that to the foundator of the FSF.

Quoting: liamdaweThat Linux vs GNU/Linux argument is annoying, and people who point it out seem petty.

Yet someone edited my article submission some days ago changing where I said GNU/Linux by Linux. I want to make a clear distinction between say Debian GNU/Linux and Android, both Linux systems, but someone though differently and changed it.

I don't understand why some members of this site show so much hate against the GNU project and GPL proponents in general, I don't get it. Linux itself uses the GPL2, and your GNU/Linux system is called that way because it runs GNU libraries and support tools. At least Debian uses that name, and it's the only currently known and accepted name to differentiate it from Android and other projects based on the Linux kernel.

I'm not trying to convince you to use that name, but editing the name in my article submission? Come on.

That incident prompted me to make this suggestion: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/624