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Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops (www.theregister.com)
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pauses massive bong rip

Wait what this doesn't sound like reality

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Hmmm

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[–] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Ah, so there’s no Linux in Android and it’s running some other kernel. Must have been mistaken, sorry.

I wonder what will be the point where we stop calling SteamOS a Linux distribution too. Maybe greybeards and their GNU/Linux thing were right. But now Ubuntu switched to Rust coreutils, I guess it’s no longer Linux. Apple recently stopped certifying POSIX compatibility so MacOS is longer UNIX even if they run BSD coreutils. Gosh, darnit.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    tell me, how much do you interact with linux when you are on an Android Phone? 0 percent perhaps? No, you start in the single user application of android and that's it.

    SteamOS meanwhile is a full featured Linux distro, heck Steam in that Distro makes it super easy to switch to "Desktop Mode" e.g. KDE.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Linux is a kernel. If you try to define it as more you’ll find yourself in a land of contradictions due to previously mentioned examples.

    Android is “Linux”. It might not have GNU userland or X11/Wayland. It is essentially a commoditised appliance but there’s Linux kernel there. KDE runs on many different Unix-like systems, it’s not something that defines Linux.

    If I log into a remote Linux shell where a system administrator locked me out of most of the things, does it make it less Linux?

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