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		Dalewyn on July 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable o... >the year of the Linux handheld. Android achieved that many years ago.

Synaesthesia on July 4, 2023 [–]

Android is based on Linux but it's still not open source, got a lot of closed source stuff on top of it. I wouldn't exactly call it "Linux" which generally means GNU/Linux

Ygg2 on July 4, 2023 | [–]

Android is as much Linux as it is SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini bottom. It runs Linux, but Linux is not its OS.

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