If you were alone in the woods, would you rather come across Windows or Linux? (lemmy.world)

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Posted with my thinkpad running Arch btw.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

No, the only time software actually becomes physical is if you print the source code:

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What's the difference compared to printing it on paper? It's a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.

What are the rules, here? What's your personal definition of physical that I don't know about?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

So there's an addition of charge? Physical addition/change!

I just feel like you're nitpicking this in absurdum. That's my honest take. ✋

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, isn't it a point of philisophy to nitpick and explore conceptual differences?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Alright, I feel like we've done that now. 👍

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