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- Embed this notice@Suiseiseki @romin Your assertion that it’s called Linux because of a personality cult is completely baseless, it’s literally just a catchy shorthand for “Linus’ Unix”, and everyone knows what you mean when you say it; plus it’s just a good name. No one is giving Linus Torvalds credit for writing every package that ships with Ubuntu Linux, you can claim that but no one actually thinks that or really gives a shit. Your best argument is that it should just be called GNU, but it was Linux enthusiasts who put together the first distros such as Softlanding Linux System as a practical way to run this exciting new kernel on their systems when Hurd was vaporware and BSD was proprietary so Linux was the only option, so while yes you can argue that the goal of this was to have a functioning all-free software desktop GNU system, the fact is that right or wrong, Linux was the new development that generated all the buzz and got people into the free software ecosystem, and so its name was stapled onto every distro and that’s what people know the “open source operating system” as. So yes, in a technical sense you can say it’s GNU, but Linux is what everyone calls it and is familiar with and sperging about it online isn’t going to change that.