It hadn't crossed my mind when I wrote the post because I was in a thread about Windows (so in my mind it was desktop Windows vs a "linux distro" like Ubuntu, C

It hadn't crossed my mind when I wrote the post because I was in a thread about Windows (so in my mind it was desktop Windows vs a "linux distro" like Ubuntu, Cent, Debian, etc). But I suppose ChromeOS should count too since it runs on laptops and desktop computers. Of course Linux (the kernel) is much more dominant on mobile because of Android. But then again Android is indirectly supported by Google ad revenue and so would contradict the original claim in the thread I'm responding to: > Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.