LOL at Windows being marked as less corporate than MacOS. They should absolutely be at least tied.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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Literal megacorporations have run purely on Windows since the 90s and itβs not S-tier corporate? lol
Windows is not at the top of corporate possibly because it can be installed on non-homologated PCs.
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.
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Some people don't like snaps
"Some people like snaps" would have been closer to the truth, but it would still be an exaggeration of their numbers.
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CachyOS being the same level as mainstream as Mint and Ubuntu is copium.
Itβs the most popular single distro on ProtonDB now, so thatβs something
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Cachy is growing in popularity a lot. Negative publicity around Ubuntu is driving people to alternatives, and I've heard a lot of people are trying cachy as their first Linux distro.
People are trying cachy as their first Linux distro.
To anyone reading and thinking of switching:
DO NOT use CachyOS as your first distro. You will not like the experience, it was not made with total newbies in mind. It is Arch with a few bells and whistles, and you are not prepared to properly handle Arch, yet. You will get there later, if you want to.
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How is Windows less corporate than MacOS or ChromeOS?
Based on the image, it seems like the argument is that Windows can be installed on a larger variety of devices than the other two
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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
macs are so rare that someone once screenshared and i was almost asking if that was gnome
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I think you're missing quite a few like:
- z/OS it's IBM's mainframe OS, so super corporate and niche
- raspberry pi os should be included because it's pretty mainstream
- android and iOS should be on there because they're very mainstream, not technically desktop OSs but for a normie with a tablet what's the difference?
- there's a lot of embedded OSs that could be added (open WRT, Windows IoT, NetBSD)
- no Temple OS?
- free DOS?
- Whatever special ones they use for super mission critical stuff like the ISS
How is Debian More niche than cachy?
Lots of things wrong with this but one I haven't seen yet is that CachyOS literally depends on ArchLinux, yet is more "independent" than it?
These are terrible axis to try and plot operating systems, and limiting yourself to such low resolution with no overlap doesn't help.
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Windows is less corporate than MacOS?
If we're talking hardware restrictions, sure I get it from the walled garden.
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GUIX top left
- dictates to the OS how it has to be
- requires a lot of reading theory
- no ties to anduril
nixOS top right
- dictates to the OS how it has to be
- recruits people snatchers
Edit: Ah I missed the axes are not labeled like the common political compass. Nvm then. Put NixOS above RHEL and guix above arch.
NixOS is definitely not as corporate as MacOS or ChromeOS. It's also not as mainstream as RHEL. I'd say RHEL should be one square to the right, NixOS should go where RHEL is now, and Guix should share the square with Gentoo.
Ubuntu easiest Linux distro
Hahaha it's a noob bait
hasn't been the easiest in about 7 years haha
Why isn't openSUSE included in that table?
Arch isn't hard to install (anymore). It takes 5 minutes with archinstall.
btw
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Fedora is basically a testing ground for the next RHEL release.
RedHat: noooo, fedora's definitely for sure independent. you're not just doing free labor for IBM
Red Hat is their biggest sponsors, and uses their releases to bugfix and create their new releases. But just because Red Hat uses it this way, ofc doesn't mean Fedora isnt independent, it just means they are very influenced by a HUGE donor!
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implying that Arch is niche at this point
CachyOS a bit to the left. It is not at all mainstream in my bubble.
NixOS on the niche and corporate quadrant.
Fedora isn't based ln RHEL, it was before, but now it's in fact the opposite. As far as I know, RHEL 10 is based on CentOS Stream 10, which in turn is based on Fedora 41.
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Hmm, I don't see how Corporate can be on a scale though. Either the distro is run by a corporation, or it's not.
i think an OS can be made entirely by a corporation, or entirely by one hobbyist with no funding. something like fedora is made by volunteers with corporate funding, whereas something like Arch is made by volunteers with donations, some of which might be coming from corporate representatives
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Replace Haiku with TempleOS
EDIT: Also, put Windows in the top right corner to avoid the "is Microslop or Apple more corporate" discussion.
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Put windows 10 just below windows 11
My take
Arch Linux breaks if you don't update it often enough
pacman -S archlinux-keyring
It's really that easy
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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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Pretty much the opposite of Arch Linux.
Its right beside it you goofy goober. :3
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Hannah Montana Linux in the far bottom right
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