• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Surface Duo uses Android though

    Android is Linux.

    here is no way they’re going to push people to using their competitor on consumer products. They want people to stay on Windows.

    Windows Phone is dead, Android is not.

    One of the reasons that Steam Deck is better than Windows handheld PCs is because Valve can freely modify the graphics drivers. That’s not possible with the proprietary Windows Radeon drivers.

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        9 months ago

        Yes and no

        Only yes. GNU software is irrelevant for anything being Linux (lots of other Linux distributions use no GNU software at all, most notably embedded variants using musl and Busybox). The kernel being a modified one is also irrelevant because almost every distribution ships patches to the kernel. The only person who can revoke Android being Linux is Linus Torvalds, not some random YouTuber named Gary.

        Fact is, Microsoft ships Linux-based products and even if it’s highly unlikely what they will switch the Xbox business to release Linux hardware, the outright statement “that’ll literally never happen” is ignorant.

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          9 months ago

          True, I was just nit-picking rather than disagreeing with your original statement