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>The Nintendo Switch (which runs Linux) was a favorite of cheaters after jailbreaks came out.

If you're saying the Nintendo Switch system software is Linux-based, I don't think that's correct. It's a proprietary system based on a microkernel architecture.



It's proprietary, but they kit bashed a bunch of existing components (iirc, Android's surface flinger, the Nvidia embedded linux drivers, and the freebsd network stack)


I think it's a FreeBSD variant, if I remember correctly.


It's definitely not. Completely bespoke OS.


ps* is based on freeBSD, Nintendo is proprietary (though use OSS libraries)




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