Linux has made it to the desktop, packaged inside VMs served by Apple, Microsoft and Google.

metalliqaz an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's not really what everyone means.

However the recent success of gaming-related distros such as SteamOS and Bazzite seem to be succeeding where Usability-focused distros such as Mint, Pop!, and Zorin couldn't get deep traction

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inigyou an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology.

Ubuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a game box."

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pjmlp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies.

Also lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games.

	▲	nemomarx 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects.

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NoImmatureAdHom an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of other OSes.

And there's Android.

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pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-]

Ah, Android, with a userspace based on Java, Kotlin, C and C++ standard libraries, Android native APIs, without anything related to GNU/Linux, unless it is a rooted device, or one gets to package a full Linux userspace as an APK, which isn't fully compatible due to security enforcement mechanisms.

I would look into those statistics regarding desktop world wide adoption, distribution per OS.

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soperj 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

People using Linux in 1992 would say something similar to people using any of the current flavours of Linux.

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jhbadger an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone who wants it can have Termux which gives you a full Linux experience under Android with GNU tools if you want it, though.

	▲	pjmlp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No it does not. It gives a Linux experience within the security sandbox from Android, which is why there are limitations when using it on regular devices, via PlayStore. Also it requires working around the NDK limitations on available POSIX APIs.

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vkazanov 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh come on. :-)

Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux.

Android/Linux, if you will. We dont have to be shy this.

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