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purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?

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- defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  - BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.
    
    And there’s your answer: that’s shit no one cares about other than a few super nerds on Lemmy.
    
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    defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech. You might not, but you don’t have to be a dick about it to people who do.
    
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