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 10 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 31 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.