Otaku, gamer, self-taught programming student and professional procrastinator from Brazil. In fact, I am procrastinating at this very moment. I love boomer shooters too.
I do agree that the vast majority of distributions made for daily use uses the GNU Core Utils (hard to use most popular software without glibc).
But I’d like to remember that there are more than a handful of Linux distributions we use everyday while forgetting they don’t use GNU Software at all.
Take for example Android or distributions used in server/embedded systems like Alpine Linux. The kernel and the Unix-like environment is the core reason people remember them as Linux and not Bionic, BusyBox or musl.
You are still completely right when talking about casual desktop Linux, which the majority of discussions about “Linux” focuses on.
Damn, I want GNU Hurd to be s table soon so I could flex about my GNU system.
Perhaps we could create a c/GNU community?
You’re absolutely right.