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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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android is a very very sad deployment of linux
...on billions of phones. How is that sad?
It's not sad in terms of numbers. It's sad in terms of the implementation. It's pretty much only the kernel... Yes I know all the utilities and applications is really GNU and not Linux, but that's what people think of when they say they run Linux.
So yes all android phones technically run Linux, but you're not getting a Unix flavoured experience at all. It might as well not have been linux.
Hence the sadness.
Not sure if this is sarcasm but do you actually think android is great? Their comment is not about the numbers but the state of android and how google ruined it.
Not sarcasm, I was commenting on the number of installations.
the number makes it more sad