Linyos Torovoltos, the USSR Soviet programmer

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Edit: Was not aware of the Torovoltos copypasta when I wrote the below.

That sounds more Greek than Russian.

“Lën Nikolaevitch Torpravi(tel)sky” would be a Russified calque of Torvalds’ name, although that has at least a couple of issues with it. (1: The first word is literally “Linen”. Same root, but no personal name developed from that root in Russian that I can see. 2: No-one has either surname.)

I think you may be Gen Z.

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Technically on the cusp of Gen X / Millennial. Been on the Internet a looong time, but I still don’t know all the memes.

Having now web-searched that name, I am now aware of the copypasta.

Glad that you educated yourself before it was about to be…

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web-searched

You truly are old, aren’t you?

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If you wanted to say what I said without using a genericised trademark, how would you say it?

Nice username by the way.

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