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They should make Linux boxes.
Xbox is Microsoft so that'll literally never happen. They could make Windows 11 boxes though.
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: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
Surface Duo is another Linux-based product by Microsoft.
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. They want people to stay on Windows.
Android is Linux.
Windows Phone is dead, Android is not.
One of the reasons that Steam Deck is better than Windows handheld PCs is because Valve can freely modify the graphics drivers. That's not possible with the proprietary Windows Radeon drivers.
Yes and no
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. The only person who can revoke Android being Linux is Linus Torvalds, not some random YouTuber named Gary.
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.
True, I was just nit-picking rather than disagreeing with your original statement
The original statement wasn't by me. o_0
I know, I meant I wasn't disagreeing with your first comment about Microsoft using Linux!