Okay I can talk. I'm home and don't have three different managers getting on me about having my phone out at work.
i met some guy in high school who had autism and would always slip in some smartass comment about the computers he was using in class aren't as good as his custom linux laptop. he actually brought it to school one day and took notes only in the command line terminal and wrote some completely fake save command that i know as a mac user isnt valid unix syntax and closed his stuff down and made some comment on how he took notes efficiently. since then i've just given up on linux users entirely
im guessing the majority of you forgeters aren't that bad but using command line for everyday loving tasks like creating or saving files really pisses me the forget off. you're either using command line for important stuff or you're wasting your computer's potential on an underperforming OS and keeping your desktop looking pretty with some transparent glass theme like a whole tool
You act like those types of stuffheads are exclusive to Linux. They're everywhere! They're not even more common on Linux, just more annoying because they're wannabe Linux hipsters. Like mac hipsters, but worse.
Anyway. Now that I can, let me be clear "What I use Linux for".
I use it for everything I used Windows 7 for.
I spend a tiny fraction of my time actually working on software. It's a hobby. Gaming, chat, and multimedia are hardly different from Windows.
I finally switched when Windows 7's failing support began to become apparent. I was having driver crashes in some workloads, odd problems with support for the latest TLS versions, even Skype was causing my system to misbehave. I wasn't going to go to Windows 10. I hate the telemetry, the interface, the search function, the ads, the updates, the bugs. Microsoft could not have designed an OS that was less appealing to me.
Four years ago, I would have done anything to hold out. I would have stuck with Windows 7. I might have even sucked it up, and moved to Windows 10 anyway. But I'd already been running Fedora on my laptop for months. It's different now. Linux isn't just for devs anymore. I only even open the terminal for low-level or remote tasks (Or if I'm board, I might open and close it several times trying to find something to do).
I don't have weird crashes, Skype doesn't freeze up my system when sharing the desktop, nearly all my software troubles are resolved. I didn't have to shell out for a mac, or give up my privacy, and It cost me nothing.
On top of that, I have to choice of exactly what I want out of my machine. The plain and industrial look and feel of Windows 7 followed me over, but I could have chosen any look or style with way less trouble than I had getting a second start bar for my second monitor on Windows.
It doesn't matter if you understand, or even if you want to. The fact is, Linux works. It just does. It's available for free, it's customizable in ways that even Windows isn't, often right out of the box, and there are no forced updates with bugs that delete your documents, of heavy costs for the hardware it runs on.