I don’t understand this experience. I’ve been using Linux for 20+ years and I don’t have this problem.

Maybe I’m just a really boring user.

Edit, on further thought, I know I am a boring user, so ignore this I guess.

I use btwtop

Something something observer effect

Probably before Firefox, since you’d be broadcasting your user agent as the specific person who is using it

Where is IceWeasel on this scale?

NC deck could be cool but I found it really disappointing.

This is starting to get into the “only one joke” territory.

I assume that this stereotype is based on some volume of observation, but it’s been dragged and beaten into the ground, and honestly, as someone with decades of professional and enthusiast experience with FOSS, this stereotype just doesn’t even strike a chord with me.

In summary, this whole meme is overcooked.

There’s never been a bad year for the Linux desktop. The share size doesn’t matter. So, yes, it is the year of the Linux desktop in my book and it has been that way for decades.