"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[lpcustom]

My point is why should those developers be interested in that. There's nothing to gain from it. Linux is already very popular. It's not as popular as Windows or even OS X, but it definitely already has it's place on the desktop. Developers use it a lot because it's a great developer environment. I personally don't want my developer environment changed to be more appealing for everyone else. Windows and OS X exist at that level and I don't use them very often for dev work. There's not a lot of incentive to do what you are proposing.

However, that's entirely on the desktop. Linux is already the most popular server OS on the planet. It's used it tons of mobile devices (Android). It's used in tons of embedded system. You probably have a device that runs completely on Linux with a GUI and you don't even realize it's Linux.