> > > > Users are expected to either obtain binaries from their distro, or compile them from source.
> > > This purist vision you have of Linux doesn't exist.
> > It does on my computer, and I suspect on a lot of Linux users' computers.
> Linux users? That is, people who use a device that runs Linux? Like Android?
I'm fairly sure the overwhelming majority of Android users only use binaries from "their distro", i.e. from the Play Store.
> The software repository+compile from source paradigm isn't "Linux", it's not even "desktop Linux".
Hey, you were the first to drag Android into this. By your own measure, the overwhelming majority of "Linux" users follow exactly "the software repository+compile from source paradigm" (albeit the "+compile from source" term equals zero in their equation).
> > > This purist vision you have of Linux doesn't exist.
> > It does on my computer, and I suspect on a lot of Linux users' computers.
> Linux users? That is, people who use a device that runs Linux? Like Android?
I'm fairly sure the overwhelming majority of Android users only use binaries from "their distro", i.e. from the Play Store.
> The software repository+compile from source paradigm isn't "Linux", it's not even "desktop Linux".
Hey, you were the first to drag Android into this. By your own measure, the overwhelming majority of "Linux" users follow exactly "the software repository+compile from source paradigm" (albeit the "+compile from source" term equals zero in their equation).