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Only "Android" users?
I use Lawnchair on Lineageos.
My brother in Christ, LineageOS is still Android.
Not at all. "Android" is a brand name for AOSP based operating systems, allowing vendors to distribute Play Services (and Play Store). It has a strict certification procedure with certain requirements (Chrome as default browser, Google folder on home screen, etc.), some of them anticompetitive (Vendors not allowed to distribute other operating systems) for which Google was sued by the EU in the past. Don't know if they still do this shit.
AOSP? You mean the Android Open Source Project? As stated on the wiki for "Android (operating system)", android is the operating system, with the most widely used version being the google version. When I run neofetch on termux I'm seeing Android 12 not /e/OS or Lineage, same for the about page on the settings.
In the same vein like Office Open XML is only partially open. Vendor-ROMs are based on AOSP too and then branded Android. Same like Chrome is based on Chromium.
Well, that's a bug in termus then, or the file termux reads is wrongly set by the creators of the ROM. Again, Lineagos and /e/ and co. are not Android and they are not allowed to pretend they are.