• RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Android uses the linux kernel but is not regular linux we use which is GNU/linux but ChromeOS actually is GNU/linux a “real” linux distro

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          11 months ago

          If so, then why we cannot boot other Linux distributions on Chromebook devices and cannot run standard Linux apps/programs without using Crostini virtual machine?

          Android just use Linux kernel, that was trawled by Google, then SoC manufacturer, then device maker.

          ChromeOS is better, as it is based on Gentoo, but is incompatible with the rest of ecosystem and most devices do not have drivers for mainline Linux kernel.

          If you don’t believe me, look at the community effort to reverse-engineer some Chromebook laptops to run normal Linux distro on them: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

          Thus I think we should not mix them in statistics. It would be like mixing MacOS with FreeBSD…