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
I think they meant the AOSP but technically most people also call that Android
AOSP, the operating system that nobody actually installs on anything. It’s about as niche as could possibly be, considering the only reason you’d 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.
There's two squares for windows.
Right? No other OS gets two versions included.
“Open source unlike iOS”
Lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macOS
AOSP hasn’t been a complete operating system in a long time, so don’t tell me Android is open source. It’s open source in the same way iOS is, the way that doesn’t 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
“Some people don’t like snap”. I had the suspicion is was most people don’t 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.
I am a person who likes the snap package over some flatpaks. Mostly because the snap integration is sometimes better. Like handling copy/paste or notification bubbles.
Android is surveillance capitalism embodied
This is a much better version than the last one.
Needs TempleOS outside of the box
This is absolutely terrible.
No ~~TempleOS~~ (never mind. It is there... but in the wrong place) no HannaMontanaLinux and you call it a meme? How dare you.
Likewise no jolla, considering Android is trying to create a walled garden like apple, and people are discussing alternatives lately
nixos is on the wrong side. literally funded by the United States' war machine.
I think that GrapheneOS is an amazing underappreciated project and deserves more attention.
Arch Linux
This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.
Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu 😂 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?
Suggestion for the top-right corner: ImmigrationOS by Palantir.
In the super niche and very corporate corner, you should put Windows Server, because nobody uses Windows fucking Server.
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?
Saying Redhat is based on Fedora just seems wrong. I know there was discussion about this when the simpler version was posted and I think I understand that, today, RHEL is downstream of Fedora. But Redhat existed before Fedora so it still feels wrong to say Fedora is based on Redhat.
"Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003.[15] It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9."
And putting RHEL anywhere but top line is sacrilege. Its actually, literally, specifically an IBM-purchased company's product. The Linux part is free, but there's corporate "special sauce" thrown in that's closed source.
macOS*
I use NixOS btw.
Wasn't there a north korean OS that would perfectly fill the upper left space?
Debian as more mainstream than Arch?
Top choice for Linux server in many cases
All but my work computer (they don't let me) run some version of debian.
I'll be honest, I hate Windows 11 but the plethora of Linux distros as well as opinions on them gives me serious decision paralysis.
Just get a feel and poke around.
The moment one of those Linux users see that I said Ubuntu they’re going to froth at the mouth and lose their entire minds. It’s like their identity is tied to only using the most obscure, unpopular nonsense.
It’s easy enough - and the Snap store (app) is good enough for what you’d need. Its not the best in some situations, but if you’re not doing anything crazy and you just want to search web or whatever without all the surveillance and copilot slop being forced onto you - it’s a good start.
It’s a learning curve, but it’s not bad. I use Libre Office instead of MS Office now. Shortcuts and interface still fucks with me after growing up with MS Office products.
I dual boot Linux and windows on both my machines. When I game - I boot up windows. When I do anything else, I boot up Linux.
Seconded. Everyone shits on Ubuntu, but it's solid, well-supported, and is low-friction both for install and daily use.
It also has decent Nvidia support and Steam runs well on it, so (most) mainstream gaming is a real possibility here.
Ubuntu has also gotten a lot better and promising in recent years, too.
Except Snap shenanigans. Snap always shenanigans. The Snap pushing is eternal… Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.
FreeBSD on the "Indy" side? I uh... Have to disagree. There's routers that ship with FreeBSD SPECIFICALLY because their license has no obligation to share sourcecode.
And putting RHEL anything but top line makes the whole thing unserious. A PRODUCT YOU BUY to even be able to download it is somehow not 100% corpo to you? Its named after the IBM-owned company that releases it. It is not 100% open source, it is Linux with proprietary "secret sauce" that's mostly for Servers - a niche usecase.
Alma is "built for enterprise" but somehow Indy? Now I know you're just messing with us. This cannot be serious.
Excellent Troll.
That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux. Now... let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro
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.
Regular use: Mint
Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite
I feel like BSDs being more over in the corpo-lib corner would make more sense just from a licensing perspective
If you're memeing, hard to omit Red Star OS
Where does Bazzite fit into this? (Sincerely, someone who wants to switch to either Bazzite or CachyOS and can't decide between them)
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
sudo in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.