Even more than just being awesome itself, it's a lot of the reason I think Linux is great. Without it I'd still love Linux, but I'd just think of it as "The fr

Even more than just being awesome itself, it's a lot of the reason I think Linux is great. Without it I'd still love Linux, but I'd just think of it as "The free OS everyone uses", something that's good because it works, but I'm not sure there would be that many actual features I'd point to and say "I love that!".