@ShadowJonathan I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, gay/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, gay plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning gay system made useful by the gay corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the gay system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of gay which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the gay system, developed by the gay 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.