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Linux
Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
Linux kernel is an operating system kernel first released on
September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds
Download a distribution - https://www.linux.org/pages/download/
I'd just like to interject for a moment
What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
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.
I'd just like to interject for a moment.
What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux,
or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel,
an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution.
Linux is fine enough
BUT LISTEN, YOU, WINDOWS HAS SO MANY PROGRAMS AND IT RUNS SMOOTH ENOUGH, NOBODY WANTS TO USE A COMMAND PROMPT FOR 99% OF THE STUFF AND LIKE BRUH I WONT USE LINUX STFU