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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 30 points 1 week ago

android is a very very sad deployment of linux

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

...on billions of phones. How is that sad?

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Not sarcasm, I was commenting on the number of installations.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago

the number makes it more sad

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