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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.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux plus Wayland plus KDE plus KWin plus Plasma. Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma 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.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma added, or GNU/Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma. All the so-called Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux/Wayland/KDE/KWin/Plasma!
Yadda yadda alpine Linux yadda yadda
This but Linux.
yadda yadda nooo distro is better bla bla bla yadda
You fucking freax
This smells of copy/pasta BUT if GNU is the OS and Linux is the kernel, are all the so-called Linux distributions in fact not distributions of GNU/Linux but distributions of just GNU? Since they are changing the OS and not the kernel? Unless they are leaving GNU as is and changing the kernel, in which case it actually is a distribution of Linux.
Distributions often ship their own compiled versions of the kernel, with some options changed, but it's still Linux. Same with GNU tools. But the main difference between distros isn't their flavor of GNU tools or what kernel they ship, the difference between distros is actually all the stuff that gets layered on top like the package manager.