I personally think too much is made of the numbers regarding desktop share. For as long as I can remember Windows has dominated the market, and for just as long they have been a distant last in terms of value. I have been using Linux for something like fifteen years and I have seen no downside from the small market share. It has always done what I wanted and the way I wanted. Over the past few years there have been incredible advances in technology on the system, and we have even seen things like Steam ported over. What exactly does having so small a market share done to hurt Linux? Nothing. It is the community that matters, and there is nothing lacking there.