Is it winning if you are the only one playing the game?
Brag about this to an average Windows or Mac user and they will go "huh?" and "what is Linux?"
Brag about this to an average Windows or Mac user and they will go "huh?" and "what is Linux?"
Depending on what you mean with "the game", I'd say even more so.
MS/Apple used to villify or ridicule Linux, now they need to distribute it to make their own product whole, because it turns out having an Open Source general purpose OS is so convenient and useful it's been utilized in lots of interesting ways - containers, for example - that the proprietary OS implementations simply weren't available for. I'd say it's a remarkable development.
I personally don't know a dev worth his salt who'd prefer windows