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This keeps getting repeated, but I don’t understand how that would lead to it being the most popular OS there is. There is way more embedded systems than there is Intel CPUs on the market and they often run Linux. Android phones are sold more than four times the amount of PCs a year. I’d assume that most Intel CPUs are deployed in the data centers... that run Linux.

But they said "widely deployed", not "popular". No one is claiming Minix is the most popular OS in the world.

but the cpus deployed in datacenters also run minix. even the ones running linux. or windows

What about the ones that are on fridges?

Yeah, but the point was that there is without a doubt more Linux instances running on ARM than there is Intel CPUs in total. Then even from the Intel processors that do have Minix, a sizable amount is running Linux. Therefore Minix can’t be nearly as widely used as Linux.

There are far more phones than desktops, and far more desktops than servers, so I doubt it. Especially if you count by OS instance (counting VMs) rather than by machine.

True!