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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:46PM (#15799508)
On the other hand, the largest Linux distro by an order of magnitude (Android) is:

1. Locked down (so that you frequently can't even update to a newer release). 2. Has telemetry. 3. Has security bugs.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by msla on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:49PM (#15799535)
Android is only a "Linux distro" if you deliberately ignore all context in how people use that phrase.
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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:13PM (#15803318)
No. I know what a Linux distro look like. I'm just saying that the only Linux that could have conquered the world, through HP, Compaq or Dell pre-installing Linux on the Desktop, would have looked more like Android than Debian.

Actually, it would have been worse, since at least Google is mandating some kind of inter-operability between OEMs together.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by sverige on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:14PM (#15802370)
The main context needed is that Android is only a "Linux distro" when Linux fans talk about the installed base of Linux.
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