I don’t think counting distributions is the best metric. The majority of hamburger makers are individuals barbecuing at home, but McDonald’s dwarfs them.
Counting users, I guess Android has over 50% of them.
Counting installations (probably one of the fairer methods), I still would think Android has over 50% of Linux installations. Google gives me numbers in the million for the number of Google and Amazon servers, not always for recent years, but I guess they won’t have a hundred million servers combined.
(And of course, there’s the philosophical discussion whether Android is a Linux distribution, or something that uses a Linux)
Re:ProcMon for Linux
by mcpherrinm on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:13AM
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There's also tons of embedded Linux devices, from your TV, your car, your fridge, home networking equipment... I don't know if theres enough of them to outweigh the massive number of phones in the world, but I think it's enough that Android wouldn't cross 50%, at least in north america.
The notable exceptions are Android and some distributions and toolkits that target embedded systems such as OpenWRT
Linux without GNU is very far from a desktop Linux distribution experience that most users would recognize.