Does it matter? Most servers and phones run Linux. My damn Sony DSLR runs android. Desktops are dying Linux won.

Does that matter? Android could switch to Fuchsia and there would barely be a way to tell.

Any server you contact can run whatever it pleases and you'll be none the wiser (unless you get a web server error or go spelunking).

The kernel is a very unimportant part of it. So while Linux with a capital-L has "won", the free/open ethos surrounding it certainly hasn't - to my chagrin.

These are hypotheticals that are fantasies, will it matter if a meteor hits the earth?

>So while Linux with a capital-L has "won", the free/open ethos surrounding it certainly hasn't - to my chagrin.

Who do you think develops and sponsor Linux? I am excited for android using a mainline kernel, I have been using it as a mobile linux computer for years. Its easy to open, I would prefer boneless chicken but chicken is fine too.

> Linux won.

But does it matter, when most of it is tivoized? What did we, the users, actually gain from all these linux kernels being inside locked down devices?

Good software. Are you going to argue that most people would be happier with GNU/Linux on their phone over android?

I would say that yes, in the long term. GNU/Linux on a phone does not have planned obsolescence and allows running desktop apps, connecting it to a screen and keyboard for desktop mode. I'm daily driving such phone (Pinephone). It's rough at the moment but getting good enough quickly.

If that happens I’m going to eat my mac mini for lunch.