Except the whole driver, storage, security and network stack, which people spend whole careers working on. Look if the kernel doesn't interest you, that's fine. But it's (by far) the biggest component of the system and to some of us it's kinda notable that it's taken over the world. You can semantically define us out of existence but it doesn't make the software go away. You're just not paying attention to it.
You are. Look, I'll just repeat. I think it's notable and important the extent to which the Linux has come to dominate computing at virtually every scale. Pretty much every application that is not user-facing code running on a Windows or Apple device is Linux. Period. And that's the majority of all software running anywhere!
Now, sure, you can define that as unimportant. But you can't define it as unsuccessful, which was the criterion I responded to upthread.
Except the whole driver, storage, security and network stack, which people spend whole careers working on. Look if the kernel doesn't interest you, that's fine. But it's (by far) the biggest component of the system and to some of us it's kinda notable that it's taken over the world. You can semantically define us out of existence but it doesn't make the software go away. You're just not paying attention to it.