Well, who cares, pretty much the only market where Linux lost was the desktop, which is the most boring, stale market to be in right now. Linux is everywhere from my company's cloud provider to my phone and my TV.
The issue is that some people take adoption as a proxy for quality and assume Linux is then obviously inferior. I'm just pointing out that Linux's adoption rate does not actually reflect on its quality--it is a product of a wildly imperfect market.
There are, of course, many other reasons why number of users is at best vaguely correlated to quality; I'm just showing that in the case of Linux it's even less about quality than in other products.
So the issue is that random Linux detractors care--the sort of people who try to convince all their friends away from Linux and towards the proprietary technology du jour. And, regardless of how "stale" the market may be, I would definitely like to see more Linux on laptops and desktops.
Right now, in the room I am, there are 3 linux machines: 2 phones, one tablet. In the rest of the house, there are other 7 machines running linux, only two of them laptops. There are 4 OSX machines and 5 iOS thingies.
There is one Windows box - a virtual machine on my work netbook - and it hasn't been booted in months.
