Countless? I think they are embarrassed to say how few. Linux makes a great rescue disk, but Linux still lacks in hardware compatibility and usability. Only dedicated Linux geeks have no problem with that.
/johnny
I have loaded Linux a few times. Running off a disk is really cool. I could go online without a problem and use Open Office.
I could not figure out how to do anything else. Why does Linux make “unpacking” compressed files so hard? I never did get to play Scourge 3-D with Linux... the Windows version is kind of buggy.
I had Linux Mint (Mate) installed and on the Internet in less that 10 minutes... It has come a long ways.
Even if I've been using Linux since Red Hat 5.0 I still boot Windows to run Adobe Lightroom, Facebook video calling. Instead of Linux I got a hackintoshed HP netbook running Apple OS X 10.6 which is cool...
I think they are embarrassed to say how few.
Embarrassed? About what? Who cares about how many people switch from Windows to Linux? I certainly don't. I am confident that crap whisky outsells top shelf single malt Scotch, but I don't use that as a guide as to what I prefer to drink. I am also confident that the number of people who eat at McDonald's every day outstrips those eating at truly fine restaurants too, and by a wide margin at that. So what. Does that make McDonald's better? Hardly. All that matters is that, thanks to the community of users and contributors that does exist (however large or small the number may be), Linux and GNU are both fantastically competitive products providing many people with choices they wouldn't have otherwise. Nothing embarrassing about quality, and that is what we have.