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For most people it is.

Just like we can discuss all day about POSIX, UNIX and various implementations of them, while most people would relate to Ubuntu.

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Or even worse, describing an entire Linux binary compatibility layer as "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows", like Microsoft originally did.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/03/30/run-ba...

I'm not sure what's objectionable about that blog post? It describes a common scenario for using the compatibility layer (and indeed the main motivation for creating it).

Especially early on when the compatibility layer was only fully tested with a specific version of Ubuntu.

And that's exactly the reason why they should mention they are migrating to git hosted on GitHub in that announcement.

It's pretty bothering that most people equate a distributed open-source code versioning system with a centralized Microsoft service, isn't it?

Agreed, it also irritates me that people equate Linux with UNIX for example, or developers with Linux workflows for that matter.

> For most people it is.

Excluding the contributors to such small projects as KDE, Gnome, Freedesktop, Debian, Arch Linux, Drupal all of which are self hosting Gitlab.

>For most people it is.

I would think at this point most developers should know that there are services like GitLab and BitBucket, and thus even if they are not totally aware of how Git works as a protocol they should be aware that Git is not directly tied to GitHub.

Should, but sadly not all of them do.

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