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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by indymike on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:18PM (#28493169)
> I'm saying this because most people who use or are aware of Linux happen to be CS majors.

Android is a Linux distribution it is the #1 phone OS (73% market share this year). ChromeOS is a Linux distribution and is the leading OS by market share in K-12 schools. Both are cheap and easy. In ChromeOS's case, they are easier for both administrators to manage and users. I'm also sure the students using Chromebooks have not completed their CS degrees yet, but one can hope.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by pjmlp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:26PM (#28494444)
And yet zero of Android and ChromeOS games come into GNU/Linux.

Linux community likes to pat themselves on the back thanks to Android and ChromeOS using the Linux kernel, yet they are oblivious to the fact that Linux syscalls aren't part of the official stable API, only certain ChromeOS models do run Linux (a yet another guest OS, WSL style), and then what GNU/Linux gets are Electron apps.

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