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There was a social movement aspect to Linux in its earliest days, as in, the days before kernel 1.0. Hell, before he got the big bux to finally unshackle himself from Finland (and his communist father) to heartland of fascism, paedophilia, and capital itself.
Linux is still tiny versus Windows on desktop. Steam still shows it around 3% - a big improvement, but even Firefox is more popular. Perhaps that will change more as governments seek to leave Windows following the shitshows of migrating from XP, 7, and 10, but right now the market is undoutably locked down by Windows.
No doubt steam isn't the best metric but it's not likely to be far off that number. The kernel is only dominant due to servers (license free and its early adopters being UNIX sysadmins) and embedded/mobile (configurability letting it run on anything capable of conducting electricity) - the rest have never been central to Linux's success, nor the reason why massive datacenter stakeholders pay inordinate sums of money to the Linux foundation.
I wonder if the recent AI slop Office and Adobe clones will, eventually, be - or at least contribute to - Microsoft's downfall.