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linux mint, but Debian edition, i feel is left of the centre split, but only a bit.
Yeah I don't get what corporate means here. Debian was basically the corporate standard for a long while. Ubuntu was personal use
Debian is also the opposite of corporate since it's a community project where the community aspect is central with democratic voting and no corporate control.
So then why would Microsoft be lower than Chrome or Apple with corporate? I wouldn't say Windows has more democratic voting and less corporate control than them
Also with 70% of computers running windows, the chart would be scaled terribly along the x axis. You would have to shift every Linux to box 1 with chrome, and put Mac in box 2/6
Ubuntu was devised pretty much as Linux for workstations, with Canonical selling support. Personal use was more of a side effect.
Developed for, maybe. But that's like saying AI was built to better enhance art. Ubuntu did nothing that Debian couldn't do stable as a server. Ubuntu in 2008, was Mint today.
(Not saying that's when they came out, just that the acknowledgement and use them, is very similar now)
Edit: or one could say.. PopOS and Mint, are the Ubuntu of yesteryear. They are the corporate mocks that many like, and I've used both. They have their purpose. But that doesn't mean they unseated Debian in anything but giving users familiarity. Unless Debian took a spike downward.