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Because Linux is "sort-of-a-copy-of-Unix" (which is not), and Unix was written in C.

C was created to write Unix. Most portable operating systems or serious embedded devices are written in some incarnation of C and C++. Including MS-DOS and earlier copies of Window$ (which I am sure still uses it)

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