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That’s pretty funny. You may want to look a little further field to discover that the machines with Python are far from “all the machines” out there. Particularly production servers, which, if they run responsibly, are hardened with every extraneous bit of software removed.

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

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

Counter-counter-anecdote: my toaster has python.

I am sorry for your toaster.

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.

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.

I used to run Python 2 on OpenVMS in production. Python can have a pretty wide footprint if one looks around.

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