Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

[Amit]

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> Sorry if this sounds snarky, but you are basically making a case for how
> the entire linux ecosystem should follow the marketing strategy of someone
> who is relatively new to the platform and has not contributed much or
> learned much about how the entire ecosystem works, right?
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> Do you suggest that the tens of thousands (or more) of linux developers
> and all the linux companies drop the current plans that they have been
> using and follow you instead, as if they haven't thought about these kinds
> of things with orders of magnitude more depth and knowledge?
>
> Dave
>

I am not saying that the linux world should follow me. I am saying
that the linux world should do the right thing. And I believe that I
am saying the right things. If people don't think that I am saying the
right things, it is ok with me.

By the way, about my qualifications:

* I am the author of the following HOWTO:
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Implement-Sys-Call-Linux-2.6-i386/.
At one point in time, my HOWTO was a homework assignment in many
universities across the world.

* I have contributed a few patches in the linux kernel.

* Recently, I developed a C library that can be used as a C++ STL
list, map, set, stack, queue, deque, multimap, multiset,
unordered_map, unordered_set, unordered_multimap, and
unordered_multiset (basically almost all C++ STL data structures).
People who develop applications in C can use this library to avoid
implementing data structures again and speed up their development. It
can be found here:
https://github.com/amit0523/generic-doubly-linked-list-library

* I have passed the toughest engineering entrance exam in the world
(India's IIT-JEE exam) and studied Computer Science from IIT-BHU.

* I did my MS in Computer Networking from NCSU, NC and I had got full
(100%) scholarship. I had scored 2240/2400 in GRE exam and I had got
800/800 in both analytical sections  and quantitative sections.

* At NCSU, I was the topper in my batch and my grades were perfect 4.0/4.0.

I had worked in USA for around 6 years in companies like Cisco
Systems, Juniper Networks, etc. But I returned back to India because I
found USA boring and I had got the Green Card also. And my skills are
such that I can get a job any time in USA from India and I will also
get H1-B visa easily because I have done MS from USA and so I fall in
the quota of 20,000 H1-B visas that are reserved for those with a
master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution.

But again, if someone doesn't do the right thing, that person will
lose. My job is only to suggest the right thing to do. If people don't
think that I am saying the right things, it is ok with me.

If people don't agree with me, it is fine with me, I am not losing anything.

Regards,
Amit