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Android ≠ Linux
Android is based on a modified version of Linux, and owned by Google. Linux is independent.
Android is Linux. Not all Linux systems are Android, but all Android systems are Linux.
It’s not necessarily helpful to those on desktop Linux, but it is Linux if someone wants to be a purist about which operating systems run on their hardware.