Linux vs GNU/Linux

This will be short one but I would like to address why I prefer to say:

• I run Linux.

instead of:

• I run GNU/Linux.

or why is this even a thing.

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It is just kernel! So?

On my Linux journey I read a lot of materials, books and tutorials where this topic came up almost every time and some authors went full zealot ranting about: Linux is just kernel!

True, Linus Torvalds created just a kernel but it is also the largest open source project according to wikipedia.

The group around GNU and FSF and the wider community of hard-core copylefties (am I first to use this term? ツ) demanded to call my system of choice as GNU/Linux.

Richard Stallman (father of GNU and GPL) argued that the Linux is just a part of the actual GNU system and to call it just Linux was some kind of cardinal sin...

Well, I don't take kindly to such pedantry and GNU/Linux does not exactly roll off the tongue either...

So I say Linux and everyone understands.

The End?

P.S. I felt compelled to make part 2 as a rant (feel free to ignore)