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[Kyuuketsuki]

I think we were actually talking about Linux as an operating system, not as just a kernel. That should have been obvious.

And it should be clear I consider that to be an invalid argument ... a distro is modular (it has to be) which confers on it a number of advantages and some disadvantages but the fact that other OS's apart from "Linux" can use the very same components inherently means Linux cannot claim them to be it's own and the fact that there are so many distro's which vary considerably in ability and quality means you can't truly make a definitive statement about Linux as a whole unless referring to that which actually is Linux (the kernel).

In fact, I said Gnome came with it by default (which is true). Gnome is a desktop manager that is used by various Linux distributions. I suspect KDE and xfce also have multiple desktop features by default to.

Also runs on UNIX ... so not specifically a Linux thing.

Oh, and as for your "a Linux based system can be anything because it's "just" a collection of programs", surely the same can be said of any OS? At the end of the day, an OS is a load of programs working together, including Windows.

To a degree yes but Windows is designed to work together from the start and sold as a single and supposedly consistent OS. The same would be true of Apple OS I guess (though less so today with OS-X).

Why am I arguing it? Because you jump in every time singing the praises of Linux and it irritates me ... I don't do that though I do jump in as soon as you or someone like you does.

Kyu