@PalePimp @charlie_root @dcc @Goalkeeper @Volkish_Observer @tyler >while what you say is true, what you are engaging on is called pedantry.
It isn't pedantry to point out that calling something by a incorrect name is totally incorrect.

>as much as I respect and admire Stallman
You clearly do not respect and admire him if you carry out the high insult of referring to GNU as "Linux".

>imperfect human beings refer to operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
Such sort refers to things that don't even have Linux in it as "Linux" - it's a buzzword, that you shouldn't mindlessly repeat.

For example "WSL1" was GNU/kWindows, without Linux, but of course people called that "Linux".

Cygwin and MSYS2 are ports of GNU software and other free software to windows without Linux, but people call that "Linux".

People even refer to installing GNU software on Android via Termux as "installing Linux".

If you want to stress that Linux is only a kernel, please do not imply it is an OS by writing "the Linux kernel" - you should write; "the kernel, Linux", or "Linux, the kernel" or just Linux.


If people who know better started to refer to Linux as Linux, the current massive confusion would dissipate, but of course not.