Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?

• BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.

  Gee, I wonder why.

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  • purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Come on, you’re being disingenuous. You know exactly what this person was talking about. You’re acting in the exact same way that people are acting when they unironically post the whole "Actually, what you’re referring to as Linux is actually GNU + Linux" or whatever. Come ooon…

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    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?

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      • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The massively different userland, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.

        They are completely different operating systems that just so happen to use the same kernel.

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