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    [–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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

    [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I think they meant the AOSP but technically most people also call that Android

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    There's two squares for windows.

    [–] suodrazah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Right? No other OS gets two versions included.

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    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    β€œOpen 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.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

    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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    [–] Antaeus@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    β€œSome people don’t like snap”. I had the suspicion is was most people don’t like snap.

    [–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I'm yet to find a person who likes Snap, actually. Even if you prefer that way of installation, people just go to Flatpak.

    [–] polle@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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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    [–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 weeks ago

    Android is surveillance capitalism embodied

    [–] vga@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

    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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    [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is a much better version than the last one.

    Needs TempleOS outside of the box

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    [–] coriza@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    No ~~TempleOS~~ (never mind. It is there... but in the wrong place) no HannaMontanaLinux and you call it a meme? How dare you.

    [–] gex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    TempleOS is at the bottom left, at the margin

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    [–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Likewise no jolla, considering Android is trying to create a walled garden like apple, and people are discussing alternatives lately

    [–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

    This is absolutely terrible.

    [–] nialv7@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    nixos is on the wrong side. literally funded by the United States' war machine.

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    [–] Ibisalt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I think that GrapheneOS is an amazing underappreciated project and deserves more attention.

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    [–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.

    Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu πŸ˜‚ 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?

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    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Arch Linux

    • breaks if you don't update it often enough
    • breaks if you update
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    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    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.
    [–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Putting Kali Linux, a Distro specifically for cybersecurity and hackers, anywhere near the "corporate" axis, could be considered a war crime in some places.

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

    In the super niche and very corporate corner, you should put Windows Server, because nobody uses Windows fucking Server.

    [–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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."

    [–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

    [–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Linux down right

    My brother or sister

    When was the last time you left the house?

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    [–] Fafa@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Wasn't there a north korean OS that would perfectly fill the upper left space?

    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Right there, just outside the graph!

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    [–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

    macOS*

    I use NixOS btw.

    [–] disorderly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

    For top left I'd like to humbly nominate SCO Unix.

    [–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

    [–] tresspass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    [–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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

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    [–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Debian as more mainstream than Arch?

    [–] rangber@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Top choice for Linux server in many cases

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    [–] Barry@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux. Now... let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro

    [–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Regular use: Mint

    Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite

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