> I've been on the linux desktop for 15+ years and what does this mean then?
I've been seeing this kind of feigned obtuseness for 20 years now. It isn't cute or funny, and linux desktop is still a minority operating system even amongst the nerds it is supposedly for.
It isn't cute or funny, nor do I care what you think it is. Why would anyone care how many other people are using an operating system? Why does it matter that a certain operating system isn't used by normal people who can't use a computer in the first place?
Regardless of what you took it as, I don't own any Windows/Mac operating system computers personally and the statement wasn't funny. I've only used linux/Plan9/BSDs for well over a decade and they work pretty well. I completely do not understand why computer use has to be a popularity contest. Consider instead that once an OS has too many simple users who want GUI cruft and bloat, it then ruins the OS with slow bloated "simplifications."
There were many years in which I tried to get all my friends and family to use linux and the reality is, eventually I just realized most people don't actually wish to really use a computer. Those people who just browse social media and email and can't fix anything borked, they are not computer users anyway. The skewed stats really show that there are so many millions of Windows computers out there but really hardly anyone uses those computers to do any computing/programming/scripting/
Anyway, I didn't find your little passive-aggressive quip to be funny whatsoever, either.
