Googling around a little bit it actually seems like they have a lot of their largest customers in their US. Apparently Whole Foods, Walmart a bunch of other retailers and several American government institutions like Fema and several city administrations.

Wouldn't surprise me if the US is actually their largest market.

Continental Europe was by far their largest market just a couple years ago. North American expansion was always a matter of discussion (if not investment) but it has only really picked up steam in the last year or so.

I believe Lowes (Hardware) also.

Can confirm Lowes.

I didn't find an unlocked workstation inside. And I definitely didn't play with one.

Walmart is going BIG on Kubernetes (like, 100% full-throttle), so they might need to get struck from this list soon...

SUSE bought Rancher though, so they are all into Kubernetes too

How does that follow?

https://www.suse.com/solutions/kubernetes/

You hardly hear about them, doesn't mean they don't exist.

SUSE is a large distribution based in Germany, in Europe they have significant inroads in government contracts.

I didn’t say they didn’t exist, but clearly it’s not just me who never really think about them:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=U...

They're a German-based company and, yes, they've always been bigger in Europe than in the US (relative to the market as a whole).

SUSE bought Rancher in 2020, and that was also in the news.

They once had one of the best KDE desktops available.

I have Very fond memories of KDE ~3 running on SuSE 8.1ish in the early 2000s. My XFCE setup today is far cleaner and more efficient, but it doesn't give me the same sense of satisfaction.

Opensuse still does. Kubuntu or Fedora are far behind.

OpenSUSE is my go to for when I want a KDE desktop. I just change the color scheme, and everything is good to go.

Last time I checked, a number of Cray supercomputers were using it in some capacity.