@mischievoustomato "Everyone" has got the wrong idea.

It has been fashionable to bury GNU and all other OS's by referring to GNU/Linux, BusyBox/Linux and systemd/Linux after the name of a kernel because NPCs are obsessed with popular, short, buzzwordy names (even if a shorter, better buzzword would be correct to use) and there's a proprietary agenda to ensure that people never hear of GNU and why it was written.

A similarity would be like if people took to calling yellow; "green", even when provided hard evidence that the colours that compose up the so called "green" are in fact a combination of red and green.

A Linux distribution would be a distribution of Linux, so either the proprietary version from kernel.org, or GNU Linux-libre for example.