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by est31 2083 days ago
> Phones

For smartphones, Linux-based Android has the largest market share. It is linux dominated. For less smart phones, there are Linux based operating systems like KaiOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

Linux based OSs having 87% market share in india: https://www.androidauthority.com/india-kaios-market-share-88...

Global 74% market share for Android: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

> gaming like Xbox and playstation

Yes, I think most deployed devices don't use Linux, and I'm not aware of any major linux using gaming console, but it's not unheard of, e.g. SNES classic mini. Also, from what I saw, Linux has a good foothold for game streaming offerings, but it's a new market and not yet established that it'll last.

> smart TVs

smart TVs are almost exclusively on Linux!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257778/number-of-smart-t...

WebOS, Tizen, Android TV, Roku OS, Firefox OS, Amazon Fire TV, all uses Linux.

1 comments

Those are phyrric victories, nothing from Linux is exposed to userspace.

Google can replace Linux with Zirkon tomorrow and 99% of Android apps won't even notice.

Just like TVs, who cares what OS a smart TV is running.