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📣 tinktank

Are there any famous non-tech people that use Linux on a regular basis?


CEOs, CTOs, entrepreneurs, politicians etc. I'm looking for examples for a class I'm giving.


  👤 rhinoceraptor Accepted Answer ✓
Easy, every one of them with an Android phone :)


👤 saeranv
Author Neal Stephenson, he writes about this in "In the beginning there was the command line".

👤 blocked_again

👤 panpanna
> CEOs, CTOs, entrepreneurs

Linux is pretty common in the startup world. But if your CEO is running around telling everyone what OS he uses instead of sealing deals you might want to rethink those stock options.


👤 Foober223
You probably mean the Android operating system. Every celebrity out there already uses linux on their android phones. PSA: the linux kernel is just one tiny irrelevant component of an android system. It's google's system level utilities and user applications that make android a complete operating system.

👤 godot
Probably not the kind of famous you're looking for, but there was this article [1] about an author who cut Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life who of course would have to use Linux because no Microsoft or Apple allowed.

1: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...


👤 nwrk
Linux There are 132 interviews in this category.

https://usesthis.com/categories/linux/


👤 ja27
Wil Wheaton.

👤 pearjuice
You mean the Linux kernel? Or GNU/Linux?