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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Google is better at advertising anyways. No sane being has ever heard of flathub. Qndroid has billion downloads every week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I imagine the largest mobile phone operating system on the planet has a few more downloads than one of the several available package managers for the comparatively very small desktop Linux audience, yeah. This is the Linux community, not the Android or Google community, so I'm not sure what you're yapping away about or why.

edit: i wanted to know how many devices run android and according to this it's three billion so you're wrong anyway lmao