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VLC Literally Reaches for the Moon to Mark its 20-Year Anniversary (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I would definitely say VLC because just about everyone and their grandma knows about and probably use VLC on their computers/laptop even if they're not tech savvy. It's easy to download and install on windows, making it more accessible than Linux to the average computer user. Linux is definitely more impressive, but is used by way less people and is still mostly used in servers.

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I'm not including Android in the Linux count because I'm talking straight computer/laptop and not mobile devices. Don't know how many people would bother with VLC on android. I know I don't because I don't need it on my phone.

[–] toynbee 3 points 1 day ago

I tried to use VLC on my phone because it claimed to support playing videos over NFS, but I never got it working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The reason I don't include Android has more to do with the fact that it's Linux in the same way macOS is. Sure android uses Linux and the kernel to varying degrees, but at this point I would consider android a distinct entity that is separate to Linux. I honestly can't find the right words to really explain what I mean by that in a more specific way than just what I said, though, so this is the best my tiny beaver brain can do for the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

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.