You can recompile software for a different architecture relatively easily. You can't easily rewrite GNU/Linux software to run on Android.

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palata a day ago | parent [-]

And you can't easily rewrite Qt software to use GTK. Still they both run on Linux.

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msgodel a day ago | parent [-]

You probably could if Android weren't intentionally constrained by Google to prevent it. That's what fsflover is trying to point out: Android is more of a television firmware than an OS and counting it like a PC OS makes very little sense because you can't use it like one.

EDIT: I think you still don't understand. It doesn't matter what hardware Android runs on it's written to be appliance firmware. Even if you put it on a laptop it just turns the laptop into what is essentially a television.

	▲	palata a day ago \| parent [-]
		So I was saying that Android runs the Linux kernel, period. But now that you say it, Android is very much a full OS. It's not a Linux Desktop, but it is a full OS. And televisions running Android are called "smart TVs", precisely because they run a full OS instead of a minimal firmware like they used to. Google is working on bringing Android to the Desktop, and Samsung already does it. As in: you plug your smartphone into a docking station and it is suddenly a Desktop computer.