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    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Clearly you have never worked in an enterprise if that is where you stick red hat.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    This, it's extremely popular in enterprise to the point where debian just isn't an option. Something like wind river should be deep in the red square.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 3 weeks ago

    I think your compass is a little bit borked. 🫠

    [–] FrederikNJS@piefed.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Shouldn't Ubuntu be more "mainstream" than debian?

    [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    ...and less "mainstream" than Windows?

    [–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    That’s the Windows 7 logo. Windows 10 and 11 are in the upper right corner.

    [–] Pman@lemmy.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Why are there multiple windows logos? You don't see Fedora 42 and 43 on the plots nor the different versions of any other distro.

    [–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Not if you're including servers.

    [–] FrederikNJS@piefed.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    In that case Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows server should absolutely dwarf OSX...

    That said, I personally wouldn't consider "server use" to be "mainstream"... To me install-base does not equate to "mainstream".

    even in just the desktop space, macos only holds any significant share on western europe, usa, canada and australia

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    debian wins again, slow and steady wins the race

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    How is it more mainstream than mac?

    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    There's more Debian servers in the internet than stars in the sky

    [–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Fuck that's beautiful πŸ₯²

    [–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Servers aren’t directly touched by users. Nobody knows or even cares what the server is outside of the admin.

    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

    You underestimate the meaning for the admin though

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Guess I went with the wrong assumption about the scope of this chart

    [–] xSikes@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Dude to Ubuntu, Debian everywhere

    [–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Are you doubting OP's data sources?

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    What is as free and as mainstream as Mac?

    anything really, macos is pure garbage

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] mech@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

    Red Star OS
    corporate

    I don't think corporations even exist in North Korea.

    [–] NewDark@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago

    I see that templeOS just off screen. Nice.

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

    More accurate than that shitty one from this morning

    [–] Nightsound@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

    How is Arch more niche than openSUSE??

    [–] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    After recent developments and threats of COC violations, Arch should probably be moved up to center of red.

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    what? (seriously idk what's going on)

    [–] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Arch is one of the distros that has unfortunately bent the knee to age verification, and is banning users from contributing if they oppose the change under guise of Code of Conduct violations (COC)

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

    oh no i use arch

    and i just updated, but it hasn't asked me for anything yet

    [–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

    My take

    (I wanted to make a post but you beat me to it and i don't want to flood the community with this type of posts)

    Where QubesOS

    [–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

    NIXOS MENTIONED GRRRAAAAHHH