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I find it interesting that you, and @n6h6 below, say more or less exactly the same thing. :-) This is exactly what I expect in this corner of the FOSS world, though. Linux is like Christianity: somehow the Unix world encourages schisms and splinter sects who all deny that each other are legitimate. It's sort of a defining characteristic. Ignoring all the commercial ones, as they are effectively all dead now, and just…
Nice write-up!
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Sure, Linux is on many, many devices which have proprietary UIs. And there it does pretty well, because the kernel just provides generic functionality cheaply. It’s a commodity backend that could be swapped with another commodity backend without any users knowing or caring. Hooray. Linux is the go to choice when you could just as well be using something else that’s really cheap, like BSD. However, desktop Linux is wh…
The kernel does not provide "generic" functionality; it provides very specific, often top-notch functionality which you can't easily find elsewhere, at least not as an easy replacement. Linux has the largest collection of various hardware drivers, and a rather wide community of kernel developers who know how to produce them. Linux has a number of specialty filesystems, some pretty important for embedded development.…
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And yet not having a presence on the desktop stings a bit doesn't it :). You can conquer the world, dominate every space and yet there's thus little voice inside saying "but you're not good enough. See over there, in that one space, you're a weakling. " Welcome to the human condition.
It doesn’t sting at all because my personal worth isn’t tied to what OS is used where. But this comment explains a lot about the mentality I see where people argue it’s a failing of Linux that it’s not intuitive for non-technical grandmothers.