What about people who turned to w10 ltc as a compromise and to avoid w11?

That top left hand corner could be filled with a selection of these: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

I'd probably put that in the same row as W10, but in the box left of RHEL.

How is "wait 24 hours before installing an app" Android less corporate/authoritarian than Windows? Plus most Android devices are stuck running Android whereas you can always replace Windows with Linux

“Some people don’t like snap”. I had the suspicion is was most people don’t like snap.

i think the lower left square should probably be extended further. where's serenity? where's 9front? where's oberon?

come to think of it, you could probably put metas and microsofts internal linux distros in the top left. can't remember what they're called now, but they're niche and corpo as hell.

I think they meant the AOSP but technically most people also call that Android

This is a much better version than the last one.

Needs TempleOS outside of the box

No one significant; just security people, system architects, build/release people and support people, because of all the best-practice it breaks. Who cares about those chumps?!?

For top left I'd like to humbly nominate SCO Unix.

I'm yet to find a person who likes Snap, actually. Even if you prefer that way of installation, people just go to Flatpak.

For aesthetic reasons the chart only allows one OS per square, and any other arrangement would put Windows dangerously low. At least Android is mostly open-source.

Where does Bazzite fit into this? (Sincerely, someone who wants to switch to either Bazzite or CachyOS and can't decide between them)

wedged in between cachy and fedora I would say

“Open source unlike iOS”

Lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macOS

AOSP hasn’t been a complete operating system in a long time, so don’t tell me Android is open source. It’s open source in the same way iOS is, the way that doesn’t matter.

How the fuck did you manage to place Microsoft on a lower tier, Corporate-wise? They took the uber-corporatism that IBM had done and perfected it.

check out Nobara if you're looking for a gaming distro, based on Fedora and managed by the guy who makes Proton-GE

And if anything, Apple has been opening up for less corporatist approaches (okay, they're legally forced, but at least they're playing ball instead of forceful resistance).

I would not really expect it at the top. It may fit the definition of authoritarian in some ways but I almost certainly wouldn't expect it to be corporate.

There's two squares for windows.

Could probably pop OS/2 or MorphOS in the top left

I feel like BSDs being more over in the corpo-lib corner would make more sense just from a licensing perspective

If you're memeing, hard to omit Red Star OS

at least they're playing ball instead of forceful resistance

Uh what the fuck? In every case they've gotten better at all a law has absolutely been required to force them. But typically they don't get better because typically with every new law they comply as maliciously as humanly possible.

Ah yes Ubuntu, basically the same as windows.

Auth/lib is very cringe 🫠

nixos is on the wrong side. literally funded by the United States' war machine.

Poor SLES not being on the board with Redhat, and ubuntu.

I ran Parabola for a year. Definitely authoritarian

I am a person who likes the snap package over some flatpaks. Mostly because the snap integration is sometimes better. Like handling copy/paste or notification bubbles.

Isn't that Red Star way over there in the top left corner?

I use Fedora but it should probably be on the corpo side of the line because it is part of the RHEL family.

Saying Redhat is based on Fedora just seems wrong. I know there was discussion about this when the simpler version was posted and I think I understand that, today, RHEL is downstream of Fedora. But Redhat existed before Fedora so it still feels wrong to say Fedora is based on Redhat.

"Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003.[15] It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9."

Doesn't Alma still require you to register with RedHat? How the hell is that more left than many OS's that don't require a phone home?!

There's an argument that it would be between Fedora and Ubuntu, since being immutable makes it more locked down and you are beholden to the devs to push out important updates like drivers. Then again it is basicallt customized Fedora Atomic so if we're counting "Fedora" as an average of all Fedora versions, maybe not

In the super niche and very corporate corner, you should put Windows Server, because nobody uses Windows fucking Server.

And putting RHEL anywhere but top line is sacrilege. Its actually, literally, specifically an IBM-purchased company's product. The Linux part is free, but there's corporate "special sauce" thrown in that's closed source.

It is technically fully community driven though. And if you moved it up you'd need more squares. No way in hell is it on the same level of corporate as Ubuntu, or especially Android.

just a heads up for people, the guy, GE, lives in Colorado. He is prepared to follow whatever fedora chooses to do in response to age verification laws. I don't blame him, but since I have been using Nobara for years, I will switch to something else if age verification comes to Nobara.

This is absolutely terrible.

AOSP, the operating system that nobody actually installs on anything. It’s about as niche as could possibly be, considering the only reason you’d install it is to work on the code.

Android is not mostly open source. Have you seen how incredibly limited AOSP is? It’s basically useless without all of the closed source parts Google puts on top.

FreeBSD on the "Indy" side? I uh... Have to disagree. There's routers that ship with FreeBSD SPECIFICALLY because their license has no obligation to share sourcecode.

And putting RHEL anything but top line makes the whole thing unserious. A PRODUCT YOU BUY to even be able to download it is somehow not 100% corpo to you? Its named after the IBM-owned company that releases it. It is not 100% open source, it is Linux with proprietary "secret sauce" that's mostly for Servers - a niche usecase.

Alma is "built for enterprise" but somehow Indy? Now I know you're just messing with us. This cannot be serious.

Excellent Troll.

Sorry yes, I meant that separate from the first point

Improving over the prior version.

Still may help to make the axis labels more pronounced and/or stop using the political compass colours.

"Some people don't like Snaps" 😂

Putting Kali Linux, a Distro specifically for cybersecurity and hackers, anywhere near the "corporate" axis, could be considered a war crime in some places.

macOS*

I use NixOS btw.

Where is TempleOS?

Where redstarOS?

*most end users.

Better?