Where redstarOS?
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I use Fedora but it should probably be on the corpo side of the line because it is part of the RHEL family.
It is technically fully community driven though. And if you moved it up you'd need more squares. No way in hell is it on the same level of corporate as Ubuntu, or especially Android.
I don't really think it'll be possible to fill the mainstream side with how things are going
Corporate+Niche quadrant could be populated with dead systems that only hobbyists use. Amusingly, there's too many to fit onto this chart.
HaikuOS is way more niche and obscure than FreeBSD or LFS. The only thing more niche than that would probably be TempleOS.
excuse but GEOS where
I feel like CachyOS should be further to Niche than Arch
Yeah, in what world is it one tick more corporate/authoritarian than Arch?
"Some people don't like Snaps" π
Doesn't Alma still require you to register with RedHat? How the hell is that more left than many OS's that don't require a phone home?!
That top left hand corner could be filled with a selection of these: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
I would not really expect it at the top. It may fit the definition of authoritarian in some ways but I almost certainly wouldn't expect it to be corporate.
I ran Parabola for a year. Definitely authoritarian
Hey, there's enough of us on here to do a Lemmy hug of death!
Debian can and will break.
What about server OSs? That would rescale the mainstream/niche dimension quite drastically
I still dont get why you wouldn't bump Ubuntu towards the corporate direction one more square.
Ah yes Ubuntu, basically the same as windows.
Could probably pop OS/2 or MorphOS in the top left
i think the lower left square should probably be extended further. where's serenity? where's 9front? where's oberon?
come to think of it, you could probably put metas and microsofts internal linux distros in the top left. can't remember what they're called now, but they're niche and corpo as hell.
What about people who turned to w10 ltc as a compromise and to avoid w11?
I'd probably put that in the same row as W10, but in the box left of RHEL.
Nah..
Improving over the prior version.
Still may help to make the axis labels more pronounced and/or stop using the political compass colours.
Auth/lib is very cringe π«