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ELI5: What the heck is linux? (lazysoci.al)

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I'm old. I don't understand it.

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[-] leftzero 1 points 1 month ago

I'm fairly certain desktop computers (and PCs in general, including laptops) are a very small portion of the devices that use Linux.

I expect most Linux devices are phones and tablets (Android), followed by embedded devices (though BSD probably outweighs Linux on those), followed by servers, followed by desktop computers.

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