Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
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TL;DR: ChromeOS is Linux but it's not Linux but it's a Linux so count it as a Linux but not Linux. Half.
I guess this is a situation where the proper name of GNU / Linux is useful
Edit: Chrome OS is is a GNU/ Linux and a couple of "proper" Linuxes are not.
As far as I know, ChromeOS is also GNU/Linux (It uses full glibc, includes gnu utils and bash), so not so much.
They mention this in the article.
In fact, they never say it’s not Linux. The summary would be more like: “ChromeOS should be counted among desktop Linux, because it has the same basis as any other GNU/Linux distribution, unlike Android. Here are the dumb reasons I think people would argue against this.”
Is Chimera Linux not Linux?
Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.
Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.
Ever heard of Alpine?
my head hurts
You see sometimes Linux is not Linux and sometimes it is. Naturally, we can't count non-Linux as Linux but sometimes we can count Linux as non-Linux.
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