Okay, I get it now. So Linux that's treated like it's GPLv3 but is actually GPLv2 only by not locking down the bootloader or providing the necessary private keys to unlock it is real linux.

Termux does absolutely nothing to improve any of this.

I guess "real Linux"'s most arbitrary but concrete definition applicable for TFA is "glibc".

I am very much against this trend by major vendors to push Linux but just as a "VM" or similarly contained crap. MS is doing it (WSL), Google is doing it (pKVM Terminal), etc.

> I am very much against this trend by major vendors to push Linux but just as a "VM" or similarly contained crap. MS is doing it (WSL), Google is doing it (pKVM Terminal), etc.

I guess they are reasonable if you want to use a unix-like terminal environment but don't want go your way to flash your hard drive to install an entire new OS.

I myself use linux under WSL because my SSD capacity is very small already and I can't afford reducing it futher partitioning for another OS.

For the record, "partitioning it" is exactly what you did if you used WSL2.

"You effectively are locked in by the OEM, who is the one that has higher privilege than the user." Anyone that has ever rooted their phone and installed a different OS would strongly disagree with you.

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/

Are people that bristled by RMS that they're this obstinate about refusing to call it GNU/Linux?

Seems to be a No Real Linux fallacy...

I don't follow. Android isn't GNU/Linux. This makes it tempting to say GNU/Linux is what we want, except that ChromeOS is GNU/Linux (it's a Gentoo derivative) and Alpine isn't (it uses musl+busybox) so "user controlled Linux" really is probably the best term.