Android also has personal use that ranks higher than WSL but professional use that ranks a tiny bit higher than Debian. Not sure if it’s a Linux distro, but it’s tangential.
IDK about Coreboot, but Android has a completely different userland. The only thing it has in common with Linux is the kernel. Nearly everything else is different. Everything else I agree, but only if you mean WSL2, which is basically an enhanced virtual machine, instead of WSL1, which translates system calls to Windows.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/?ref=itsfoss.com#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system says for developers: Ubuntu, then WSL, then Debian, then everything else, then Arch, then…
Android also has personal use that ranks higher than WSL but professional use that ranks a tiny bit higher than Debian. Not sure if it’s a Linux distro, but it’s tangential.
Android, ChromeOS, Coreboot, WSL2 are all Linux Distros
IDK about Coreboot, but Android has a completely different userland. The only thing it has in common with Linux is the kernel. Nearly everything else is different. Everything else I agree, but only if you mean WSL2, which is basically an enhanced virtual machine, instead of WSL1, which translates system calls to Windows.
Completely different ? How so ? Last time I did an
adb shellI could uselsandfindafair.Maybe I exaggerated, but what I meant is that Android lacks many ubiquitous components of Linux distros. For more information you can read https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/02/an-introduction-to-google-android-for-developers/.
Android is Linux+Stuff so it is a linux Distro XD
Not in my book.
(source: me book)
The differences said in the link above cause a drastically different developer & user experience.