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If someone is moving off on CentOS Linux and doesn't want to start paying for RHEL, why would they want to pay either SUSE or Canonical instead? Certainly they could move to openSUSE but that makes them SUSE users, not customers. And users who have demonstrated they're willing to go through a migration to avoid paying.

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We pay SUSE and RedHat because enterprise customers demand support contracts with vendors. For everything else we just use CentOS.

Also, both SUSE and RedHat have additional features locked behind the enterprise subscription. It might be open source but requires a license.

This makes me wonder. What Linux does Google run? I'm guessing Debian.

I believe their Linux desktops are Debian-based but my understanding is their servers run a highly customized version of Linux that really isn't based on and doesn't look like a conventional distro.

They used to use their own Ubuntu variant for desktops, but switched to their own Debian variant.

And ChromeOS is based on Gentoo IIRC.

I'm looking forward to https://rockylinux.org/

By the same author of CentOS and promises to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.

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