cleaned up version of
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com's brilliant response pasta to the "i use alpine" / "frothing at the mouth" pasta
"I use Linux as my operating system", I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a GNUish gleam in his eyes, ready to GNUsplain with extreme precision. "Actually, he says with a grin, Linux is only a kernel, a proprietary one at that." he takes a powerful breath into his thick GNU/Lungs and continues; "Most likely you use GNU slash Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a proprietary smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's Linux, but it's not GNU/Linux".
The smile quickly liberates itself into a full-blown GNU/Grin on the man's face. His body begins to emanate a holy GNU/Glow as he prepares for yet another GNU/Exorcism. Being possessed by a proprietary daemon, I soon begin foaming at the mouth, then drop to the floor and start to writhe and scream. He calmly continues with his interjection; "Alpine is a BusyBox/Linux distro. BusyBox is a inferior clone of GNU under a GNU license. Even though Alpine's developers attempt to not include GNU and make an utter garbage distro, they still use GCC and many GNU libraries to compile it, as well as including the following GNU packages in the default install; gdbm, gmp, gnutls, grub, libgcc, libidn2, ncurses, parted, readline, tar, wget and, of course, coreutils. While there is an edgy minimal installer that excludes GNU coreutils, it still includes includes grub, gnutls, wget, etc. Additionally, the first thing most Alpine users do is install the GNU software that's missing (although most of them don't even register that they're installing GNU software). Furthermore, GNU coreutils is only one GNU package out of 388." The daemon replies through my body; "If windows was compiled with GCC, Would that make it GNU?" and demonically interrupted before the GNU/Priest could respond with; "and work is underway on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you won't be for long."
He sighs and continues; "Yes, being compiled with GCC would make any software, quote, "compiled with GNU," unquote. Furthermore, there are indeed distributions of GNU for Microsoft Windows, which does make it Microsoft GNU/Windows if you install them - but those only exist to give the suckers a taste of freedom and you're better off installing the real thing (GNU/GNU Linux-libre). It's a real shame that Linux puts any development work into ensuring that it can be compiled with compilers that aren't under a freedom-defending license, rather than using all the fine GNU extensions GCC makes available, but that's sadly to be expected from a proprietary kernel project - although Linux is indeed freedom respecting once exorcised to make GNU Linux-libre." Finally, he banishes the daemon with one final freedom-respecting phrase: "I'm always correct despite the proprietary efforts to make me wrong." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the proprietary daemon is exorcised from my body. It lies on the floor, cold and limp - he had interjected it to death with the good word of freedom.
Now that I have been saved, I beg for forgiveness. He proclaims; "Forgiveness is not required - all you need to do is repent. Repentance consists of installing a free distro on your computer to replace the proprietary Alpine. A list of free distros is available at;
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html"
Big 
Duck 
