[jniedrauer]

> Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one.

I think you may be living in a bubble. I've been running devops for various shops for half a decade and I've only once used Ubuntu, because it was already being used by an acquisition.

I won't deny that Ubuntu is popular. It's certainly got the lions share of the desktop market. But there is no such consensus in the server market.

[Sammi]

Come on guys. You're fighting anecdote with anecdote.

Here's some date I could dig up by a couple of minutes googling:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux

Other sibling comments link to more.

[bananocurrency]

https://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ I don't think this feels like a bubble.