Nice to hear that and welcome!
Get ready for some rethinking though :)
Linux is just the kernel, what you use right now is a distribution of
GNU/Linux. The OS started out as GNU, but GNU didn't have a working kernel by
the early 90s. Linus Torvalds however made a working kernel and released it
under the GPLv2 License, which was the preferred license for GNU software
back then and made it possible to combine both to a complete operating
system. None of the parts, utilities + user programms or the kernel would act
as an operating system on their own, they are more like two halfs of one
thing which are basically non-operational without the other one.
It's important to explain that because of the ideals behind the GNU project,
the dedication to which makes Trisquel unique. Otherwise it would be a
complete copy of Ubuntu and basically redundant.
