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It's literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago.
Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux.
Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux.
Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems...
Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I'm kind of annoyed when people don't realize this.
I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It's sloppy and unnecessary.
for some reason, all these devices i see around these days seem to run android (one of 5/6/7/8 based on the exposed ui) or win10.. haven't seen any linux desktop-ish thing here