Your definition of “beating” is not the commonly known one. It doesn’t matter if it’s better (it arguable isn’t, other than on a pure technical level, since for the common user both Windows and Mac are way WAY easier to install and maintain).
It also lacks compability still.
And the most important part: “Beating” is market share only. Again, being “better” is irrelevant. Betamax lost to VHS because it was never adapted. So, it got beat. Minidisk lost to CD because Sony was idiotic.
Linux is losing on workstations because of all those factors. It is difficult. It lacks vital hardware and software support. Many parts of it is truly still technological inferior (font rendering, screen tearing… etc).
Again, < 1% of Windows 7 users will actually switch to Linux. Because they don’t care. Have they been using Windows 7 up until now they most likely are so computer illiterate that they just continue to run W7 until their computer break, and then get one with W10 and run that one for 11 years until THAT one breaks.
But the point here is the initial rant. I can summarize the whole state of the Linux community, and this specific linked article as such:
