[jteppinette]

I developed security software in Python that ran on 100k+ production nodes covering dozens of operating systems. They all had Python.

[hamandcheese]

Counter-anecdote: none of my Linux PCs have python.

[BbzzbB]

Debian comes prepackaged with Python. If there are distros that are good enough for a server almost out of the box, surely Debian stable is one.

[skeledrew]

Not sure who's to "blame", but I was super surprised a few days ago when I installed Kubuntu 24.04 (minimal), and Python was missing. Was fine though as I strictly use via pipx and miniconda only, but still surprising.

[jteppinette]

Counter-counter-anecdote: my toaster has python.

[hamandcheese]

I am sorry for your toaster.