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Android is hardly linux and is also bad.
But Android is a Linux... Not GNU/Linux, but neither is Alpine.
And OSX is a BSD but nobody i ntheir right mind would consider it a BSD distro.
OSX is UNIX, built on BSD foundations but not BSD.
Android on the other hand IS Linux, and is distributed. So I say, it's a Linux distribution.
All other things that people mention as qualifying for a Linux distro are either GNU libs (which alpine doesn't have) or POSIX/UNIX way of doing things, which would disqualify Android from being POSIX compliant but not from being a Linux distro.
I'm gonna be real here I don't care.
Understandable, have a good day!
I wouldn't say it's bad per se, but getting worse. If they go through with their app developer verification thing then it will definitively cross the threshold from "thin fucking ice" to shit
Android is frustrating with the way it limits you from doing what you want within the os.