The ecosystem created an echo-system. Being default on linux helped python succeed, not anything specific about the language. It became default on Linux becaus

The ecosystem created an echo-system. Being default on linux helped python succeed, not anything specific about the language. It became default on Linux because it was better than perl or bash (easier to use and manage deps) and had decent upstream support and an ecosystem around since the 90s. On windows powershell is still king, python shares the throne as a close second though. Compare all that import-module, nuget, winget, chocolatey,etc... mess with pip! And version nightmares are more manageable thanks to pyenv. Python ecosystem is good at making a mess work well (except when it doesn't).