Or, clear up confusion by not calling Android and ChromeOS Linux? Call them Linux based, or Linux derived. From my own POV, when someone says Linux, I think of

Or, clear up confusion by not calling Android and ChromeOS Linux? Call them Linux based, or Linux derived. From my own POV, when someone says Linux, I think of the distros that are by and large compatible, distro packaging formats aside. E.g., when installing Slack by downloading a tar.gz and unpacking it I've never had to worry about it working or not, but then I was doing so on Ubuntu / Arch / Pop!_OS / Fedora. While I've used Alpine for containers in the past, I was always aware that Alpine was deliberately special and different to be smaller, and because there's a lot of people who dislike , and that if something wasn't available via apk, then I had little I guess this is like the debate about the drift of the word "literally" to mean "I'm dramatically exaggerating" - there's the people who insist that "literally" has a meaning, and only that meaning, and anyone using it for anything else is wrong, then there's the people who think that how people use a word defines it. I get the annoyance of the people annoyed by the complete inversion of the word, but I feel like they're like the mythological Canute opposing the tide. So long as I understand what people are saying when they say Linux, I'm happy - and I've never met anyone who uses "Linux" when referring to Alpine or Android. They always specify that it's Alpine in their container, because Alpine is sufficiently different. Likewise, if someone told you they had a Linux phone, would you think that they're using Android? I wouldn't, I'd think that they had a PinePhone, or something running PureOS. I realised this debate had name, so googled it, and it's referred to as the the prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate. I guess I'm on the descriptivist side - unless your descriptive usage is wrong, of course. If you referred to Alpine solely as Linux, but then I couldn't use software on it that I can use on many other Linuxes without recompiling, I'd be a tad miffed.