Sorry sweaty, it’s 2025 and we’re anti-woke now 💅 /s

A bit of a tangent, but I almost never use xargs in the shell anymore, and instead use “while read line ; do *SOMETHING* $line ; done”, because xargs doesn’t have access to the shell’s local variables, aliases, or functions.

For instance, a change to a network interface config on Windows usually takes effect when you hit the “OK” button. Linux requires toggling the interface for that change to take effect.

That’s not a Linux thing so much as a your particular Linux distribution thing. Different Linuxes can have vastly different user interfaces for various things. Some distributions even go out of their way to be more similar to Windows.

Yes, because that is origin of the term. It came from Japanese motorcycle & car customization.

Creating a backronym for a term doesn’t absolve it of its racist roots.

Please report posts & comments that make use of the term on lemmy.ml; we remove them.