Why isn't it GNU/Linux/SystemD/Mesa/Xorg? Basically every Linux desktop could be described that way.
Heck, if Earth didn’t exist, Linux wouldn’t have happened, so Linux/Earth/Sun/Biology/Torvalds/Stallman/SystemD/Mesa/PulseAudio/Wayland…
GNU nowadays is a tiny part of the desktop. There’s also projects slowly moving to rewrite it in Rust and a more permissive license, other parts are losing importance like GCC losing to Clang, so its relevance is dying over time. Just like the FSF.
True, but it's the "first part" (since GNU runs on top of it) so I call it Linux/GNU.
GNU provides the user space, and a bunch of command line utilities, but that's pretty useless these days without a GUI. So mostly I call it Linux/GNU/Gnome.
I do spend quite a bit of time in a browser though, I mean a machine that can't browse the web is pretty useless. So my friends refer to it as Linux/Gnu/Gnome/Firefox.
Of course to have a good experience in the browser you need an Adblocker. Adblock Plus is the one I use.
I've instructed all the people in the office to call it Linux/Gnu/Gnome/Firefox/AdBlock Plus. Recently though I had to chastise someone for leaving out the word "plus". I mean what are we, Barbarians??
Clearly, considering you are using AdBlock Plus instead of uBlock Origin :)
Instead, people get interested in something new and interesting. Then, for a proportion of them, some stranger will come along and language-police them.
If you believe in free software or some variant, don’t put pointless barriers in the way of people adopting it.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU 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. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.