i can't really agree since i'd be happy without them, and i suspect many users haven't even interacted with the GNU tools i've done void/musl and gentoo with clang tooling, uutils over core, and more i admire distros like alpine which stray away from GNU stuff, and they've all been lovely, certainely not unrecognizable and i've tried BSD varients for a similar purpose 🐡 when i reccomend linux, what i like about linux is really truly the kernel, the variety of devices and drivers it supports, as well as the speed and development that goes into optimizing it for desktop use (ex NTSYNC & wine) definitely not the GNU tools or the kernel's license: i typically dislike copyleft licenses used in GNU projects (like the GPL-2.0-only on the linux kernel for example) it's not like i hate GNU or anything, i just don't think that it has as much impact on people's computer usage than they'd like to proclaim i'd be more open to calling it GNOME-KDE/linux or X11-wayland/linux since those projects have more impact on my daily use personally, when i log on to my PC, i don't care if a background script is using `grep` or `ripgrep` if you know what i mean 😹 i'm a big fan of stallman though, i follow him on the mastodon side what a champion of free software he is, although we disagree on a few things 😜💜 a long response, but i thought i should explain why i intentionally choose to say "linux" without the "GNU/" much love 💜 P.S. my favourite GNU tool is cat for obvious reasons 😻🐈‍⬛ (screen too, before i swapped for tmux)