Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.
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I compared a mature Linux distribution to buggy new distributions and somehow that equates to WSL? I don't see the comparison whatsoever.
From a Mobile OS perspective Android has far more features and flexibility than traditional Linux distributions. Its not even comparable.
Use GNOME or Plasma Mobile if you wish, but people need to stop acting like Android is not Linux. Linux is the kernel, period. Not other GNU software packaged along with it.
Get off your high horse with the naming etiquette, almost everyone means gnu/Linux when talking about Linux, they want the gnu tool chain, and the desktop environments and the packages not just the Linux kernel running on their phone. You're not special or smarter by pointing out android is technically Linux, you're just being obtuse.
"Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel." -Wikipedia
Linux is literally referring to the Linux Kernel. When people refer to GNU & Linux they say that with their words. I'm not being smart by taking words at their intended value.
The developers of GrapheneOS explain it best: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164054819007755
Was just having a conversation. No need to be so rude. Have a better day.
Erm akchually 🤓
postmarketOS is a mobile Linux distro that is neither AOSP/Linux nor GNU/Linux. It is based on Alpine Linux, a lightweight distro that uses something other than GNU (busybox and musl libc)