I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
>Richard Stallman smart computer man
>Richard Stallman not smart enough not to figure out that people say "linux" as an abbreviation for GNU/linux
>smart computer man has autistic fits of rage in public and hates how people say "open source" instead of "free software" when they mean the exact same fucking thing and he just wrongly assumes everyone sees them differently
Richard Stallman may be a computer genius but he is an autistic, incel retard who lacks basic common sense and was raised in a time where learning the lower levels of how computers worked was much easier than it is now due to most learning resources starting from the top and working their way downwards rather than starting from the ground up.
