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    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Clearly you have never worked in an enterprise if that is where you stick red hat.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    This, it's extremely popular in enterprise to the point where debian just isn't an option. Something like wind river should be deep in the red square.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 months ago

    I think your compass is a little bit borked. 🫠

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    debian wins again, slow and steady wins the race

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    How is it more mainstream than mac?

    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    There's more Debian servers in the internet than stars in the sky

    [–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

    Fuck that's beautiful πŸ₯²

    [–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Servers aren’t directly touched by users. Nobody knows or even cares what the server is outside of the admin.

    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

    You underestimate the meaning for the admin though

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 2 points 2 months ago

    Guess I went with the wrong assumption about the scope of this chart

    [–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

    Are you doubting OP's data sources?

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

    What is as free and as mainstream as Mac?

    [–] FrederikNJS@piefed.zip 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Shouldn't Ubuntu be more "mainstream" than debian?

    [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    ...and less "mainstream" than Windows?

    [–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    That’s the Windows 7 logo. Windows 10 and 11 are in the upper right corner.

    [–] Pman@lemmy.org 0 points 2 months ago

    Why are there multiple windows logos? You don't see Fedora 42 and 43 on the plots nor the different versions of any other distro.

    [–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Not if you're including servers.

    [–] FrederikNJS@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    In that case Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows server should absolutely dwarf OSX...

    That said, I personally wouldn't consider "server use" to be "mainstream"... To me install-base does not equate to "mainstream".

    [–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

    even in just the desktop space, macos only holds any significant share on western europe, usa, canada and australia

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] NewDark@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

    I see that templeOS just off screen. Nice.

    [–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

    Red Star OS
    corporate

    I don't think corporations even exist in North Korea.

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

    More accurate than that shitty one from this morning

    [–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

    NIXOS MENTIONED GRRRAAAAHHH

    [–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

    At this point nixOS is less niche than gentoo

    [–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 weeks ago

    kali is definitely mainstream

    [–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    After recent developments and threats of COC violations, Arch should probably be moved up to center of red.

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    what? (seriously idk what's going on)

    [–] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Arch is one of the distros that has unfortunately bent the knee to age verification, and is banning users from contributing if they oppose the change under guise of Code of Conduct violations (COC)

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

    oh no i use arch

    and i just updated, but it hasn't asked me for anything yet

    [–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago

    My take

    (I wanted to make a post but you beat me to it and i don't want to flood the community with this type of posts)