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    Where do we put QubesOS

    [–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 hours ago

    CachyOS a bit to the left. It is not at all mainstream in my bubble.

    NixOS on the niche and corporate quadrant.

    [–] Martyy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

    Put windows 10 just below windows 11

    [–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 34 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    LOL at Windows being marked as less corporate than MacOS. They should absolutely be at least tied.

    [–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

    Literal megacorporations have run purely on Windows since the 90s and it’s not S-tier corporate? lol

    [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Windows is not at the top of corporate possibly because it can be installed on non-homologated PCs.

    [–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

    But on the other hand, all the reasons that people hate corporate OSes apply much more to Microsoft than Apple. Microsoft is the company that puts ads in their OS and is built entirely out of proprietary tech, and has been more vocal about shoehorning AI into everything.

    [–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

    That's a poor qualifier. Most corporations do not deploy MacOS to their employees. Windows belongs in the top right, if not a full line by itself for Corporate.

    [–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    Windows (either 11 or 10) needs to be in the top right corner. MacOS should be one notch down vertically. Ubuntu and mint both move one notch right. Cachy moves one notch left. Gentoo moves two to the right.

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

    I am not sure I understand your logic behind Cachy and Gentoo. Cachy is actually quite mainstream now and Gentoo is... less so.

    I think there's just not enough tiles here. FreeBSD is definitely more mainstream than Haiku, but less so than Gentoo, let alone Arch.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 7 hours ago

    What would you change?

    RedHat's a corporation, and so move it to the right a couple squares, above Ubuntu. And move Windows up one.

    And I'd add:

    [PS, Sorry, I got carried away... ' Originally intended to mention less than a couple dozen. LOL. Oops.]

    • Slackware
    • CRUX
    • KISS (and/or) Carbs
    • Venom
    • BedrockLinux (What I use, since it was new.)
    • Midnight BSD
    • DragonFly BSD
    • SuSe
    • OpenSuse
    • NixOs
    • GuixSD
    • PuppyLinux
    • Void Linux
    • PCLinuxOS
    • TinyCoreLinux
    • ALT Linux
    • OpenBSD
    • ReactOS
    • Debian Hurd
    • Guix Hurd
    • Ironclad
    • Kolibrios
    • Slitaz
    • Redox
    • Illumos
    • Oracle Solaris
    • Open Solaris
    • BeOs
    • Plan9
    • 9Front
    • LFS
    • Side GNU/Linux
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Milis Linux
    • Pisi Linux
    • RED OS
    • Vine Linux
    • RISC OS
    • Exherbo Linux
    • BusyBox+Linux
    • BusyBox+Linux+Suckless
    • Crunchbang Linux
    • ShredOS
    • REDOX OS
    • Menuet OS
    • OpenIndiana
    • UNIX
    • IRIX
    • Nekoware
    • Android
    • GrapheneOS
    • Illumos
    • Tribblix
    • OmniOS
    • Alpine Linux
    • GhostBSD
    • NomadBSD
    • Witch (my own, abandoned/dormant since 2016
    • MikeOS
    • Pluto (a kernel written in zig)
    • Amiga
    • AROS
    • MS DOS
    • Free DOS
    • Altair DOS
    • RemixOS
    • Sailfish OS
    • Sinclair BASIC
    • Xerox
    • SkyOS
    • DNIX
    • MINIX
    • Darwin
    • TrueOS
    • SerenityOS
    • Plurix
    • Inferno
    • Eros
    • Mach
    • V
    • Singularity
    • HelenOS
    • Harmony
    • Oberon
    • Sinclair QDOS
    • AtheOS
    • BareMetalOS
    • HOS
    • DreamberdOS
    • GNU Emacs ;)
    • TempleOS

    Though I'm not sure where they'd all go. And many of these would have to double up in lib-left. And/or split up the chart into more squares.

    And I'd cross-post to a political compass lemmy community. ;)

    [–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    SUSE just one down from RedHat

    [–] Jiral@lemmy.org 4 points 12 hours ago

    Not to be confused with openSUSE though, even if there is some overlap. Maybe that one is down another step.

    [–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

    What is corporate about Debian?

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 7 hours ago

    I could think of a couple votes.

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    [–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    Pretty much the opposite of Arch Linux.

    Its right beside it you goofy goober. :3

    [–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Of all the problems, this bothered me the most.

    [–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

    I mean, I think the spot each is in is okay, its more that line. The opposite would be macos or windows 11, methinks.

    [–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    Where's Hannah Montana Linux?

    [–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

    I miss RedStarOS, Suicide Linux (OK, not a distro) and TempleOS here as well.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 7 hours ago

    Oh damn, I forgot to add HML to my list.

    [–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

    Biebian, too.

    [–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    if you live antwhere but the USA and Canada, MacOS is a niche, absolutely not mainstream at all, I see more linux users than MacBook users here in Brazil

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

    macs are so rare that someone once screenshared and i was almost asking if that was gnome

    [–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Oh, didn't you know? "The World" is just "USA" on the Internet.

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    [–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 37 points 22 hours ago

    How is Debian More niche than cachy?

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