Kurt Cobain could've heard about the GNU+Linux operating system before he killed himself.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I don't get it....

[papastevesy@lemmy.world]

Are you implying that's why he killed himself?

[fubo@lemmy.world]

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.

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¹ It wasn't called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

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

[abbadon420@lemm.ee]

Mayans could've studied at oxford

[abbadon420@lemm.ee]

They said mint, not mind

[executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de]

But he never got to use GPS, and that makes Helen Mirren sad.

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

Floppy disks

[rhynoplaz@lemmy.world]

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.

[iapar@feddit.org]

I took it as:
"Mint is the just-works-distro so you don't want to shoot yourself in the face constantly.".

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

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.