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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
PikaOS right under debian
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.
Nixos?
How is Debian More niche than cachy?
Replace Haiku with TempleOS
EDIT: Also, put Windows in the top right corner to avoid the “is Microslop or Apple more corporate” discussion.
not sure if omarchy goes in the middle green one.
edit: mabye next to cachy os.
Where does PopOS go?
I’d make it 4x4 rather than 6x6 or fill it out a bit more.
Windows is less corporate than MacOS?
If we’re talking hardware restrictions, sure I get it from the walled garden.
Mac OS isn’t iOS, there is no walled garden.
implying that Arch is niche at this point
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.
You know what? I know they’re far from the ideal solution, but I have installed a few things with snaps … and it was fine. It worked seamlessly and painlessly (in some instances).
Generally, I’d prefer other ways to install, but snaps aren’t the end of the world.
(This concludes my hot take of the day.)
snaps aren’t the end of the world
System engineers all collectively shuddered at that thought. Then OS security nerds.
This is the “I tried heroin and it was good” story but for OSes
pretty soon we’ll need snaps in our snaps to make it easier for developers to create snaps with snap dependencies
I bet Mark Shuttleworth likes Snaps.
“A person likes snaps.”
There, all covered and more accurate than the original.
CachyOS being the same level as mainstream as Mint and Ubuntu is copium.
Yeah, even Bazzite is less niche then CachyOS
yeah, trendy distros come and go, i’d hesitate to call it mainstream, even if a handful of youtubers make a video about it.
It’s the most popular single distro on ProtonDB now, so that’s something
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.
Arch only breaks if you don’t read the wiki.
Update the repo’s gpg keys, read the Arch news, do what manual steps they mention and you can update it after a year and it won’t break.Arch only breaks if you don’t read the wiki.
Finally found the ultimate reason why I’m not gonna use Arch.
To be fair, the arch wiki is very good. I use it quite often despite not using arch. Quite a few things are valid on other distros, or you can get hints on how to fix it, like where to start looking.
with all due respect to the arch project and all, but I don’t wanna do all that just to update my PC
It’s not more hassle than updating other distros after one year, cause they’ll throw a whole new major version at you. Here’s Debian’s upgrade instructions for a comparison:
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.htmlWhat I wrote fits in a 6 line bash script, and there are much more sophisticated ready-made updaters available, too.
Joke’s on you, Pop hasn’t had a major update in years!
Except, if any random program that you want to install requires a new version of a low-level library, you’re gonna have to do full system update today and not when upgrading the major version of the distro.
This is why I use Nixos.
It can update single apps independently.
In theory you could update single kernel modules, but that obviously makes the shit unstable.
This is all entirely theoretical. In practice, yes, it’s easier if you don’t go too long between updates on Arch.
But “not to long” means once a month, not every day. And you should really not go more than a month between updates on any distro.This is all entirely theoretical.
If you mean the system being screwed over by a dependency on a newer lib version, I’ve had that exact scenario triggered multiple times in Debian testing. (And in other distros too, really.)
FancyApp depends on libbutt >= 1.1. You have 1.0 installed.
libbutt 1.1 was compiled against glibc 2.43 and lists it as a dependency. You have 2.42.
Upgrading glibc triggers reinstalling half of the system, including low-level components, which in turn pull in updates of other low-level components that don’t themselves depend on glibc. Including the kernel.
But at least, with Ubuntu or whatever, this shouldn’t change the general workings of the system that would require manual adjustments from me.
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.
