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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by 8fingerlouie on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:14AM (#36677477)
> And yet not having a presence on the desktop stings a bit doesn't it :).

Depending on how you define "desktop" i would argue that Linux has a very big presence on the desktop. Considering the "new desktop" is a smartphone, and Android is based on Linux, that alone would account for a very large desktop presence.

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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by kaba0 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:33AM (#36677611)
Feel free to read the title as GNU/Linux.

Unfortunately there is no real “transmission” between the two, pretty much only the kernel is shared, absolutely nothing in userspace. Hell, it is ridiculously difficult to even run/emulate android on a normal linux distro.

Which is a shame, because while android’s model is far from perfect, it is definitely eons ahead of the traditional linux userspace, especially on the security front.

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