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You obviously do not know how an operating system works and thus do not know how Linux runs, because I'm nice and wish rid the world of ignorance I will give you a very high-level and brief overview of how modern operating systems work.
1. An operating system is nothing more than an abstract layer that allows programs to utilize the computers hardware components.
2. After your computer boots, the main core of the operating system (called the kernel) is loaded (usually through a bootloader) into memory once loaded into memory the kernel loads up the various other programs besides the kernel, which allow for things such as user interaction.
3. The kernel that gets loaded depends on what operating system you choose to run. In Windows the NT-kernel (or whatever its being called) is loaded, and under Linux, the Linux kernel is loaded in fact the only thing that the name Linux refers to is the kernel, all the other programs are developed separately.