That's not really what everyone means.

However the recent success of gaming-related distros such as SteamOS and Bazzite seem to be succeeding where Usability-focused distros such as Mint, Pop!, and Zorin couldn't get deep traction

This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology.

Ubuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a game box."

Why are you still manually executing commands like it's pre-fable 2025?

Because it is way cheaper?

It's around $1 / M on claude code plan. Most users report around 200M tokens on the $200 plan.

I don't think anyone is paying full API pricing.

No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies.

Also lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games.

They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects.

It is hardly any different that saying gaming on Linux is great because MAME exists.

Game studios will keep buying Windows, using Visual Studio, and let Valve do the needful.

Additionally people keep acting as if Valve and Gabe will be around forever, they won't, none of us will.

MAME and Proton are not the same at all. You can reuse Wine/Proton libraries even on Windows.

It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of other OSes.

And there's Android.

Ah, Android, with a userspace based on Java, Kotlin, C and C++ standard libraries, Android native APIs, without anything related to GNU/Linux, unless it is a rooted device, or one gets to package a full Linux userspace as an APK, which isn't fully compatible due to security enforcement mechanisms.

I would look into those statistics regarding desktop world wide adoption, distribution per OS.

Anyone who wants it can have Termux which gives you a full Linux experience under Android with GNU tools if you want it, though.

No it does not.

It gives a Linux experience within the security sandbox from Android, which is why there are limitations when using it on regular devices, via PlayStore.

Also it requires working around the NDK limitations on available POSIX APIs.

Not with Fdroid's release.

Oh come on. :-)

Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux.

Android/Linux, if you will. We dont have to be shy this.

Yeah, exactly because of that, lets not do victory laps for a kernel.

GNU/Linux, the Linux desktop, has zero relevance on Android.

No one, not a single person, buying Android tablets and phones at places like MediaMarkt, cares about GNU/Linux Desktop.

They care about what apps via PlayStore, Samsung, Huawei and Xiomi stores, they can use, just like all normies.

People using Linux in 1992 would say something similar to people using any of the current flavours of Linux.

No they wouldn't, given that the only reason I got into Linux was the lackluster POSIX support on Windows NT.