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Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android. GNU/Linux + X11 + Gnome/KDE never went anywhere near mainstream, perhaps, but Linux sure as

Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android. GNU/Linux + X11 + Gnome/KDE never went anywhere near mainstream, perhaps, but Linux sure as hell did.

ekianjo 13y ago
AGain. Android. Is. Not. Linux. When we talk about Linux as an OS, we don't talk about Linux as the kernel. This is very tiring to read this everytime. The Android userland has nothing to do with any of the Linux distros out there. It's not Linux who went mainstream, it's Android userland. Try running Android applications in "non-Android" Linux for good fun.
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- justincormack 13y ago
  So Shuttleworth was right it was a UX problem...
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > When we talk about Linux as an OS ...we talk incorrectly. Linux isn't an OS. Linux is a kernel, around which many OS's (Ubuntu, Red Hat, ChromeOS, Android, for instance) are built.