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
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I think they meant the AOSP but technically most people also call that Android
AOSP, the operating system that nobody actually installs on anything. Itβs about as niche as could possibly be, considering the only reason youβd install it is to work on the code.
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.
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This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.
Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu π the OS that is trying to take away installing apps not from them and trying to fully track app developers while not giving a damn about malware that effects the user because it doesn't effect their bottom line?
Well, I guess AOSP vs Googles Android.
βOpen source unlike iOSβ
Lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macOS
AOSP hasnβt been a complete operating system in a long time, so donβt tell me Android is open source. Itβs open source in the same way iOS is, the way that doesnβt matter.
To be fair though, you can build a more open android distribution like Graphene or Lineage, which you can't do with iOS. Still an awful platform though
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Arch Linux
- breaks if you don't update it often enough
- breaks if you update
never happened to me on arch
has happened to me on cachyos tho, with plasma 6.6 (switching back to arch, plasma 6.6 has no issues)
Suggestion for the top-right corner: ImmigrationOS by Palantir.
- Made for people too unfit and dumb for even be a police officer.
- Made for a literal genocide.
- Its devs and users will hopefully face consequences.
No ~~TempleOS~~ (never mind. It is there... but in the wrong place) no HannaMontanaLinux and you call it a meme? How dare you.
TempleOS is at the bottom left, at the margin
Oh yeah. That's right. But wrong place I think, like the other comment mentioned.
Wrong place for it, God's own OS should be maximum authority
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βSome people donβt like snapβ. I had the suspicion is was most people donβt like snap.
I'm yet to find a person who likes Snap, actually. Even if you prefer that way of installation, people just go to Flatpak.
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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?!?
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Android is surveillance capitalism embodied
Wasn't there a north korean OS that would perfectly fill the upper left space?
Right there, just outside the graph!
Ah wow. I recognize it now.
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.
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This is absolutely terrible.
This is a much better version than the last one.
Needs TempleOS outside of the box
TempleOS is outside of the box
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Am I the only one who thinks this doesn't fit for the most of all?
Apple upper left, Windows upper right, BSD down left and Linux down right. End of the story.
Linux down right
My brother or sister
When was the last time you left the house?
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apple upper left makes sense, since it's only actually popular in the US.
windows upper right makes sense, since it's the most used desktop OS.
BSD lower left makes sense, since it's extremely rare for anyone to use it.
linux lower right... makes sense, but only if you consider servers. linux desktop usage would be closer to lower middle, or, depending on the distro, closer to the middle in general
nixos is on the wrong side. literally funded by the United States' war machine.
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I think that GrapheneOS is an amazing underappreciated project and deserves more attention.
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Putting Kali Linux, a Distro specifically for cybersecurity and hackers, anywhere near the "corporate" axis, could be considered a war crime in some places.
That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux. Now... let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro
Do it! It's so easy. It's also easy to build it up in your head like it's this big complicated thing. It's not. When I finally did it my first thought was "why didn't I do this sooner?"
I've been happily using mint for years. Do it.
Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.
I'm on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it "Script Kiddie Arch". Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.
Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I'd say it's an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.
Only asterisk I'd add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I'd go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn't there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they've overcome that hurdle it'll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.
A rolling release distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed is not for noobs.
I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.
Particularly for gaming, I'd say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you'd see in something slower moving.
Regular use: Mint
Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite
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In the super niche and very corporate corner, you should put Windows Server, because nobody uses Windows fucking Server.
Update: I now have nobara. Kept windows in case I dont like it on the long term or something goes wrong. Nobara looked kinda more "noob oriented" than cachy. Had some issue to launch games that were previously installed, did some random things and it worked.
Everything went much easier than I expected!
Top left, Huawei HarmonyOS
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