>>187 I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, just fucking Linux. Linux with some permissively licensed tools is an operating system unto itself, and doesn't need a GNU system made even less useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and mostly replaceable system components that's still not certified as a fully compliant OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users arguably run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it, but I don't. Through a peculiar turn of events, the system is actually Linux, and I am perfectly aware that it is definitely not the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and I am using it, but it is just the most crucial part of the system I 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 here used in combination with various free userland tools: the whole system is basically Linux with Toybox, musl, and Suckless added, or Linux (+ some other stuff I'll gladly credit if asked). Not all the Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.