That's an upper level platform policy question, which is rather difficult to compare to because... Linux doesn't really have anything like that. Try running a d

That's an upper level platform policy question, which is rather difficult to compare to because... Linux doesn't really have anything like that. Try running a dynamically linked executable with more than the basic dependencies on a Linux distro 2 years newer and see how many missing dependency libraries you run into due to ABI changes and soname bumps... FWIW, Termux works perfectly fine on the latest version of Android - what they can't do is push updates through the Play Store, because the minimum required API level now imposes security restrictions (no running executables from your data directory) that break it. But that doesn't make Android not a Linux system; you can still adb shell into it and run commands and shell scripts and copy new binaries in and run them. This is not unlike Linux container systems, which also break various apps. It comes with the territory of containerizing applications that you have to break insecure legacy APIs; this is not unique to Android.