Android is really its own platform that happens to use the Linux kernel as a shortcut.
What we're talking about here is really what used to be called GNU/Linux, so the whole platform that is based on the software developed by the various communities.
I think this is needless gatekeeping. Does it matter if someone uses KDE or GNOME? Systemd or openrc? Musl or glibc? They are all part of the Linux community.
I use GrapheneOS for my smartphone and Fedora for my workstation and I consider both to be linux distributions
Apart from basically every laptop sold in the last 20 years, yeah
Android is really its own platform that happens to use the Linux kernel as a shortcut.
What we're talking about here is really what used to be called GNU/Linux, so the whole platform that is based on the software developed by the various communities.
I think this is needless gatekeeping. Does it matter if someone uses KDE or GNOME? Systemd or openrc? Musl or glibc? They are all part of the Linux community.
I use GrapheneOS for my smartphone and Fedora for my workstation and I consider both to be linux distributions
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Most Linux laptops are Chromebooks which ship with Android's previous Bluetooth stack (still not BlueZ).