Linux is really only a thing because it ISNT Unix (which macos is). Theyre more related than windows because they’re both POSIX compatible, but share essentially no codebase.

A rooted android phone on the other hand is just plain ol linux compiled for ARM, with some custom google jazz. It utilises a lot of Linux components like cgroups and SELinux - commonly found on desktop Linux (especially with containers).

Its not really that important in a broad sense to be honest, but it definitely makes android a Linux distro.

Android takes up 47% of the usage share of all computers, I’d be surprised if VLC managed to overcome even just android.

Mayyybe in america this would be true, but I’d still be suprised

Seems a bit biased to ignore 47% of the global OS userbase with android.

Even if VLC was great for ghetto windows, android alone almost has double its userbase.

Engineers love moving parts, known for their reliability and vigor

I hear this a lot but in production I still see xp/win 7 era PC’s all the time due to comparability issues (half the time still online too :/ )

Maybe its just absurd support for big spenders like the US military?

Seems like the small companies are mostly getting burned by gambling on MS

Any reason you dont just use bcachefs?

Supports various write-cache configurations, and seperate forgrouns/background replications (a la raid 1).

I think its even more stable than raid because it’ll auto-balance when a disk fails, but I’m not as certain in that