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Cobain died in April 1994.

The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.

So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.

But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.


¹ It wasn't called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

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I assumed it was his realization that his art was being exploited and his girlfriend sexually assaulted by a system he willingly entered for financial benefit and he couldn't do a damn thing about it but that fits too.

Explains why he didn't shoot an executive instead.

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Yeah, I don't get it either. Of course Kurt Cobain knows Linux. The private security of the island where Cobain, Elvis, 2Pac and the others live, runs on Linux.

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fedia.io

I think it's meant to be a "Cleopatra is closer to us than the building of the great pyramid" or something like that, but I'm not sure either.

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TIL Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of floppy disks than Kurt Kobain did to wooly mammoths

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The lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, could've heard about the GNU/Linux operating system. | Spyke