What makes you assume that those who upvote Linux are writing desktop apps? There are certainly people who work in QT or GTK on desktop stuff, or even those wh

What makes you assume that those who upvote Linux are writing desktop apps? There are certainly people who work in QT or GTK on desktop stuff, or even those who work in Java and target all desktop platforms, but I would posit (based on my own experience) that many more work in the kernel on device drivers or on the CLI writing utilities.