Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.
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I think going of out your way to type four more letters shows appropriate appreciation for the historical significance of the GNU project.
I think that sort of pedantry over semantics is one of the reasons the Linux community has such a bad reputation.