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"But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver" (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No you're using Termux with bash. Unless you're actually interfacing with the kernel directly in which case ignore me and carry on.

Anyways this is a great example of why "Linux" as the name of the OS is stupid. GNU/Linux is better (for GNU-based, obviously, don't go wheeling out the Alpine copypasta because I'm not talking about that).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Alpine Linux is actually a great example of why you are right. Because when people say Linux to describe the OS, they almost always mean GNU/Linux (Linux Mint, Arch Linux, etc). But then there is Alpine, which also calls itself Linux, but its developers actually mean something very different, because it's not GNU/Linux. So that only makes things even more confusing. Android doesn't even use the mainline Linux kernel, so calling it Linux is probably even worse than with Alpine.

If we always used the correct names, there wouldn't be so much confusion.