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

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

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Easy, every one of them with an Android phone :)

Stephen Fry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry#Computing_and_soft...

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

He switched to OS X when it came out. I would not be surprised if he also has Linux machines or VMs though.

Vernor Vinge also, I recall reading he writes using emacs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters might be relevant.

> 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.

If the CEO is just a glorified salesperson, you definitely want to rethink those stock options.

  *cough* Adam Neumann *cough*

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.

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...

Linux There are 132 interviews in this category.

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

Wil Wheaton.

Non-tech. He was an ensign on a warp-speed spaceship!

You mean the Linux kernel? Or GNU/Linux?

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