There's probably good reasons why he wasn't running Linux. I'd imagine for things someone in his position would need a Mac would make sense, with better softwar

There's probably good reasons why he wasn't running Linux. I'd imagine for things someone in his position would need a Mac would make sense, with better software for making presentations, Office compatibility and video conferencing compatibility, as well as battery life. It's embarrassing, but understandable. What this really signifies though is how little the Linux desktop means. The Linux desktop does not compete with macOS or Windows - at least not in a business sense. If the Linux desktop suddenly had a dramatic uptick in usage, it's not obvious to me who would suddenly earn more money. Canonical has shifted to focus on servers after bleeding money and AFAIK does not make significant money on the Ubuntu desktop, which is easily the most popular desktop distro. Many developers do not run it on their own desktops, but exclusively use Linux based tech on servers. As a part time Linux desktop user it has become my impression that the Linux desktop is a community driven (i.e. not profit-driven) project. The only desktops with significant corporate backing (GNOME and KDE) have this backing because their major backers (Red Hat and SUSE) do make some small amount of money selling desktop software, but exclusively in corporate environments (users of RHEL or SLED workstations don't usually have a choice) to companies that also adopt their server products. But it's a small thing for both of them. The Linux Desktop only seems to exist as the result of a gesture of kindness - big companies continuing to put money into a marginal product, and a lot of community effort - and using it also tends to feel that way [1]. Making money with Linux is what the Linux Foundation is about. It's the trade association of people making money with Linux. And that's on infrastructure, not the desktop. The Linux desktop is not part of making money with Linux. The desktop apparently matters so little in this picture, not even the director feels like he should dogfood it. [1]: Critically: the amount of end users directly paying for their Linux desktop user experience is close to zero. It's a miracle some desktops are as nice as they are, given that.