implying that Arch is niche at this point
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You forgot SuSE, as usual.
SuSE too niche to even show up on this chart.
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Arch isn't hard to install (anymore). It takes 5 minutes with archinstall.
btw
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Arch Linux breaks if you don't update it often enough
pacman -S archlinux-keyring
It's really that easy
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Arch only breaks if you don't read the wiki.
Update the repo's gpg keys, read the Arch news, do what manual steps they mention and you can update it after a year and it won't break.
My Arch install yesterday:
That's a nice Kernel you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.
It somehow deleted the old kernel image from the boot partition but failed to write the new one (and I didn't notice before rebooting).
I needed to rebuild the kernel via chroot from a live USB.
with all due respect to the arch project and all, but I don't wanna do all that just to update my PC
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I'd put Haiku on the extreme top left corner (or in one of the two rows below that first column) since it's based on BeOS - it's a corporate OS wether it exits or not and it intends to replicate said corporate OS. In its place I'd put either TempleOS or Plan9.
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Why is Cachy more independent than Arch?
TL;DR: Winzozz is more corporate than Mac N' Cheese OS
Windows is so corporate, it actually succeeds in being the unquestionable lowest common denominator corpos love so much.
Not that MacOS is the champion and savior of FOSS, but as far as I know, Windows is much more hellbent on backwards compatibility and simply being available on as many types of devices as possible, while Apple at the very least pretends to focus on innovation rather than exponentially increasing profits and universal availability, with Apple products being status symbols and all.