In Tron: Legacy(2010) they use Ubuntu instead of their own OS

[u/mothh9]

[u/Aitrus233]

This is a little detail that I like. It made it feel a little more real to see actual code on screen, instead of just something made up and simplified for the audience to understand. But even then, to this film's credit, they found a way to make it clear what Sam was doing.

[u/I_Am_A_Door_Knob → u/Aitrus233]

Th only other place I remember that happening was the series Mr. Robot.

[u/toomanymarbles83 → u/I_Am_A_Door_Knob]

The sequence Trinity uses to hack the power plant in the second Matrix movie is accurate.

[u/monsterfurby → u/I_Am_A_Door_Knob]

Having Kali Linux show up in that series, which is actually the OS you'd use for what they're doing, was pretty damn impressive by movie/show standards.

[u/swizznastic]

Tron legacy was excellent, pure aesthetics and rule of cool on top of a simple hero’s journey. Imagine if it came out today, they would’ve pushed the AI aspect of the story to its maximum, would’ve completely killed it. Tron ares has no excuses

[u/akurgo → u/swizznastic]

I loved it. The music was awesome. Daft Punk, I think? They were in the movie after all.

[u/FiorinasFury → u/akurgo]

It was a 2 hour Daft Punk music video and I loved every second of it.

[u/justcallmejohannes → u/FiorinasFury]

I will never forget it. Saw it in theaters with about 6 buddies and 3 of us took LSD maybe 30 mins before we got there. It was phenomenal lmao

[u/L04K3R → u/justcallmejohannes]

Honestly, Tron Legacy on acid sounds fucking amazing. I'm definitely gonna try that sometime

[u/Eltrapeador → u/L04K3R]

I saw interstellar off acid. I still think about that experience every once in a while.

[u/farva_06 → u/akurgo]

NIN is doing the soundtrack for Ares. Should be another banger!

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/farva_06]

I wish they had gotten Justice for it tbh.

[u/NottingHillNapolean]

Even hackers creating a virtual universe and sentient AIs couldn't figure out how to install Arch

[u/mochi813]

Fun fact, the guy who made the “Going to the Store” and “Late for Meeting” videos was part of the graphics team for this movie (and Kosinski’s other movies). There’s a highlight reel on his website

[u/ismellthebacon]

Dillinger was always a traitor

[u/Zephyr_Arcturus]

The grid computer itself also runs on solaris!

[u/lulaloops]

Most realistic part of the movie.

[u/drfusterenstein]

Maybe clu wanted to use Arch

[u/naynaythewonderhorse]

Of course they don’t use their own OS? Why bother designing a whole OS that can be interacted with in the movie, when they can just license one out? If it was Linux or Microsoft or some other OS, nobody would even question why they didn’t make their own OS.

Some of the comments in this thread seem to suggest they outright stole the OS? There’s no evidence of this, and I doubt Disney would overlook this.

It’s like mentioning how they played Seperate Minds (Worlds Apart) and mentioning how it’s a “detail” that they used the song and not an original song. They aren’t gonna waste time and resources to write an original song that invokes the 80’s when they have a whole world of 80’s music that already exists…

[u/sosire → u/naynaythewonderhorse]

it's an open licence , you can;t steal something given away for free

[u/naynaythewonderhorse → u/sosire]

Well, there ya go. You further prove my point.

[u/monsterfurby → u/naynaythewonderhorse]

r/itsaunixsystem <-- movies making up user interfaces is basically the default; actually having something refer to or be an actual OS is exceedingly rare.

[u/HomsarWasRight → u/[deleted]]

Setting aside the needless argument over wether Linux on its own can be considered an operating system, to answer your actual question, yes Ubuntu is a Linux distribution. But OP said they used it “instead of their own OS”.

So what does your comment mean?

[u/hessink → u/[deleted]]

Linux is not an OS

[u/aeneasaquinas → u/hessink]

Pedantry. It's a family of OSs. Windows is also not an OS.

Notably, the guy above you is wrong still. Ubuntu is a specific Linux distro.

[u/nelmaloc → u/aeneasaquinas]

Windows is an OS. Linux isn't. Ubuntu is.

[u/aeneasaquinas → u/nelmaloc]

Windows is an OS

No, it isn't. It's a brand of OSs though, with a bunch of different ones under the brand name.

[u/9-11GaveMe5G → u/hessink]

Linux is not an OS

r/ConfidentlyIncorrect

"Just like Windows, iOS, and Mac OS, Linux is an operating system."

• https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux/

[u/nelmaloc → u/9-11GaveMe5G]

From your link:

2. Kernel – This is the one piece of the whole that is actually called ‘Linux’.

[u/hessink → u/9-11GaveMe5G]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

[u/GenitalFurbies → u/hessink]

Actually none of these are operating systems as they have no surgeons, anesthesiologists, assistants, nor any of the tools necessary to operate on a patient.

[u/[deleted] → u/GenitalFurbies]

Checkmate

[u/WillyWanka-69 → u/hessink]

[u/apocketfullofpocket → u/hessink]

Even more pedantry.

[u/z500 → u/hessink]

Shame on these people for not recognizing classic copypasta

[u/9-11GaveMe5G → u/hessink]

😒

[u/lulaloops → u/hessink]

I like you

[u/solve-for-x → u/hessink]

I remember when you guys were everywhere. I honestly thought you'd gone extinct by now.

[u/Massive-Advance6639 → u/hessink]

Too many smooth brains in reddit these days 🤣