> Deepin is a distribution developed in Wuhan, China by Deepin Technology. Its homepage proclaims it "the top Linux distribution from China" ... The extensive EULA is uncommon for the Linux space, and the privacy policy goes into some detail about the types of information they collect – not just browser history, but information on when you use your computer and the applications installed on your system.
> Deepin Technology said today it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Tech ... developed a new UOS product ... The UOS preparatory group was voluntarily initiated by a number of domestic operating system core companies. Its members include China Electronics Group (CEC), Wuhan Shenzhidu Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing Chengmai Technology, and ZTE New Fulcrum ... It has set up a headquarters in Beijing and established branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu and other places.
> It supports hundreds of distros and dozens of OSes.
Indeed, so why is Deepin the only distro worthy of a "Friendly Link" on the Ventoy home page? Are they a sponsor of the project? Code contributor? Preferred demo platform?
It is one of the major distros, with millions of users, and yet there is very little knowledge of it in the West. Its commercial upstream claims to have over 3 million paid users:
I suspect that in plain old user numbers it is up there with Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS, and yet you rarely even hear it mentioned in the same breath. Nor is its desktop, DDE, which is FOSS and is supported in Fedora, openSUSE and has its own Ubuntu remix.
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2022/257/deepin
> Deepin is a distribution developed in Wuhan, China by Deepin Technology. Its homepage proclaims it "the top Linux distribution from China" ... The extensive EULA is uncommon for the Linux space, and the privacy policy goes into some detail about the types of information they collect – not just browser history, but information on when you use your computer and the applications installed on your system.
https://cntechpost.com/2019/12/31/union-tech-acquires-deepin...
> Deepin Technology said today it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Tech ... developed a new UOS product ... The UOS preparatory group was voluntarily initiated by a number of domestic operating system core companies. Its members include China Electronics Group (CEC), Wuhan Shenzhidu Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing Chengmai Technology, and ZTE New Fulcrum ... It has set up a headquarters in Beijing and established branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu and other places.