Re: I love these posts about how it will never take off.
"Really????? This is about the DESKTOP environment for mr & mrs joe public."
Not really, when people (probably people like you) keep muttering this misguided nonsense about it being a niche OS that only crazy hobbyists contribute to or would ever run. That's demonstrably false, it's ubiquitous.
Android is not the same thing as GNU/Linux, no, but it is yet another example of the linux kernel (and a few other parts of the system) getting out there and getting things done. It's in cars, it's in network equipment, it's in tvs, it's in everything.
"Equating embedded versions of an OS with desktop versions does you no favours in the credibility stakes."
It's not a version, it's the same OS, which is why I can install firefox on my NAS and run it via remote desktop if I want to (not that that would be useful). I'm not sure how this affects anything in 'the credibility stakes', but it certainly doesn't do the assertion that it's never going to take off any favours either.
If there isn't a consumer UI that struck it big in the desktop space, so what? That's not even the growth market any more.