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trasz on Aug 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

Android isn't Linux. Linux is just an implementation detail, which could be swapped for something else and the apps wouldn't notice.

rbanffy on Aug 2, 2021 [–]

This is and has always been kind of the point of Unix-like OSs. Blackberry had a workable Android 2 runtime on top of QNX.

You can (at least could) run a Debian on top of a FreeBSD kernel. I run a lot of Linux code on MacOS too.

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