GNU/Linux

Hello today I want to direct your attention to GNU/Linux why is it called that and why (in my opinion) it should just be Linux.  OK first some history on GNU and Linux.  GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix, and Linux is named after it's creator Linus Torvalds and the x probably came from Unix.  Linus Torvalds says it doesn't need to be GNU/Linux but just Linux and I agree because it's the Linux kernel and at this point GNU was just the first distro nothing more.  Well there is something more because you will see a few pieces of software in any Linux that points back to GNU like GNU Nano and GIMP(GNU Image Manipulation Programs) but other than that not much more i know of.  Also Mac's not called GNU/OSX but it has GNU Nano.  Plus I'm not quite sure if GIMP came from GNU or not. I'm not quite sure which it should be called at this point but I do give both Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds credit for making the best OS in the world and in ways the most advanced.