Global desktop PC shipments in 2015: ~136mm (http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/ http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/) Linux desktop penetration: ~1.3

Global desktop PC shipments in 2015: ~136mm (http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/ http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/) Linux desktop penetration: ~1.33% (http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Mac,Windows,Linux&sample=36&qpsp=2015&qpnp=6&qptimeframe=Y http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....) 1.3% * 136mm = 1.77mm Let's ignore Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on, each of whom are by themselves rumored or reported to have over a million computers in their DCs. Let's further ignore the long tail of the second tier of providers, who are thousands in number and have merely hundreds of thousands of computers each in their DCs. Let's go on to ignore all of the self serve corporations in the hundreds of thousands of data centers across the world, running Linux or a derivative on thousands to hundreds of computers each. Let's also ignore all the routers, switches, file servers, and miscellaneous other networking equipment running Linux or a derivative. Let's further ignore all of the televisions, media players, microwaves, appliances, and other consumer goods running Linux or a derivative. Let's look only at Android phones, which run an embedded derivative of Linux. The phone market shipped 341.5 million year over year in 2015 Q2 (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp). Android had an 82.8% marketshare, so that's 282.77mm. The number of linux computers that have the ability to boot "a live cd" is 6 thousandths (.6%) of one segment of one part of the linux embedded and server market. Linux on the desktop has not only been dead for the last 18 years, it's barely a rounding error on a single segment of a single part of the embedded and server market. By the way, "the complexity of the default" has been fine for over 30 years, and it's still fine. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's not the right answer.