It is a thing. It's a very small thing, but a thing regardless. Some of us have used Linux on the desktop since the 90s.

No it is not. Not even chromebooks are a thing. Android is a thing and if they try enough the might turn it into a desktop alternative.

Linux on the desktop is a thing. At my previous job all the consultants (100+) used a custom distro based off Mint/Kali, with a Windows VM.

It's a thing. Might not be your thing, but its a thing nonetheless.

What do you suppose I'm typing this on?

Dude, how pretentious are you? I'm writing this on a Acer Chromebook, btw, which I absolutely love.

More than one in 30 users is using Linux on the desktop. That does NOT include ChromeOS (which you may or may not classify as running a Linux desktop - I do not).

That's a "thing", much more so than e.g. Windows Phone market share, or the Baha'i religion.

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My desktop has been running Linux for 18 years

I own a pair of clogs. Still, I'd hesitate to call it a thing.

I guess I've been doing all my work and getting all my computing desktop needs from an imaginary box then.

It was my desktop from '95 'till 2008. Then - tired of the always recurring wrestle with drivers and multimedia - I bought a MacBook. Never looked back.

1995-2008? That is some serious self flagellation. I have tried to use various Linux desktops from 2000 onward and, while they have improved immensely over the years, I can't see using one as my daily driver even today.