> as an Operating System -- thats just part of the tooling that is included An operating system includes the tooling that comes with it. This is what distingui

> as an Operating System -- thats just part of the tooling that is included An operating system includes the tooling that comes with it. This is what distinguishes Debian from other linux distributions: what tooling comes with it? It matters because it directly determines what you as a user can get done quickly, without needing to go through the trouble of installing additional functionality. (Or, as a developer, what you can do without needing to distribute or include additional functionality.) Windows is particularly bare in what it comes with: many tasks that I need to accomplish require additional tools. I often field questions of "how to do X on Windows?" that cause me to think, "well, this is a built-in command in Linux… in Windows, you could download X or Y, but they're not scriptable to what you want to do…" This is what drove me to Linux: The batteries are included. And they're scriptable.