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woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 months agoXbox is Microsoft so that’ll literally never happen.
Microsoft already uses Linux and in fact even develops its own Linux distribution since quite some time because Windows just isn’t good enough for certain tasks: github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
Surface Duo is another Linux-based product by Microsoft.
simple@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Surface Duo uses Android though so I wouldn’t put it in the same vein as Linux distros. Microsoft uses Linux for their web services like everyone else, but there is no way they’re going to push people to using their competitor on consumer products.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Android is Linux.
Windows Phone is dead, Android is not.
smeg@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Yes and no
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only yes. GNU software is irrelevant for anything being Linux (lots of other Linux distributions use no GNU software at all, most notably embedded variants using musl and Busybox). The kernel being a modified one is also irrelevant because almost every distribution ships patches to the kernel.
Fact is, Microsoft ships Linux-based products and even if it’s highly unlikely what they will switch the Xbox business to release Linux hardware, the outright statement “that’ll literally never happen” is ignorant.