@Script Kiddie Trinity could have been using Linux during the hacking scene in Matrix Reloaded, though it wasn't obviously a real OS there, just an imitation of an X11 window manager.

Nice analogy, though complicated by the fact that Microsoft and other corporations do have their fingers now in the Linux kernel, which is been gradually corrupted by this influence!

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