No. WSL contains entire operating systems. Embedding a distribution in an operating system doesn’t make itself the operating system… The OS is Windows not Linux. I’m not sure if you are trolling or not…
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You misunderstood the point of the answer. I already explained why we should count them as Linux.
OK, because you have trouble to understand my reply, here a short one: yes, we should count Android and ChromeOS as Linux. And I explained why. You might not like the answer, but it is what it is.
You said “might” and asked if it should count. I gave you reason why.
It doesn’t matter what people “celebrate” (what does that mean?). If the question is if these operating systems are “Linux”, then yes, they are. Because they distribute Linux. That’s all to it. Just because a system distributes Linux does not mean it is compatible to each other. That is a completely different question, involving other tech and standards.
I am not arguing past that, I answer the question from the reply I answered to.
Android as well. These are operating systems distributing Linux Kernel, therefore they are Linux distributions. Nothing more, nothing less. From there, it depends what the use case is to classify an operating system. Is it a Desktop system? A smartphone system? Or specifically made for gaming? For IOT devices or for servers or for supercomputers? Does it use GNU tools? Where is the line when you stop saying it is Linux based operating system?
Linux is Linux. ChromeOS is distributing the Linux Kernel. Even if an operating system wouldn’t use the GNU tools and if you could not run the application that runs on your Desktop PC, does not mean it wouldn’t be Linux. I don’t care how people categorize it or arbitrary ignore Linux based systems.
This sucks. I was waiting for the Nexus Mods to support more games. It was the one hope of having an easy tool to mod games in Linux. The new https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex does not support Linux and they will look how the Linux support could look like in the future… which does not sound promising.