Well, that might depend how you define success. Android is by far the most commercially successful piece of software to come out of the Linux kernel (granted,

Well, that might depend how you define success. Android is by far the most commercially successful piece of software to come out of the Linux kernel (granted, pretty far detached at this point). If that’s not pure enough for you, I have to think that Valve’s Arch-based SteamOS drives more revenue than Canonical’s support contracts. Estimates point to around 3 million Steam Deck sales and then the software revenue on top of it, which should amount to at least 10x Canonical’s revenue. Then you look at the elephants in the room with enterprise Linux: I have to think that RHEL pulls in more support contracts than Canonical, Amazon Linux similarly has a place as a default option for Linux in AWS, and you’ve also got Oracle in the mix in terms of not-Debian enterprise distributions with widespread adoption.