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Because the comment you made about Linux being left behind in cloud technology is just laughable.

Does Windows even do containers? Can Windows run from removable devices? Linux is way more advanced in cloud technology (in fact, it runs most--if not all--clouds). How many Windows machines are in the Top500 list? How many are Linux?

If you want to throw around qualifications, then I've been involved with computers and IT for just a tad over 40 years myself. I have the degrees, experience, and RHCE to prove it. Those don't matter as much, though. What matters is that you throw around comments like "Going forward, Limux and many Linux distros, would have been left incompatible with the cloud way of doing things" and expect that people would just accept it, when the facts are obviously exactly the reverse of what you just said.

Windows does all processing that any business or individual might need or want. But, it's not Windows alone doing the work. It's the back-end services, or the cloud, that is now carrying major parts of the loads.

Removable devices? Windows has versions that can be run from removable devices.

Linux has been known as the OS behind remote computing, or servers. Even MS uses them, and now, Linux is being served within Azure.

But, the cloud is not "merely" the usage of remote servers to perform the needs of "in-house" produced applications and "in-house" developed files and data. Azure and AWS are a lot more than just "remote servers". Linux does remote servers, even as services are developed around Linux servers. Azure and Amazon and even Google, are offering "complete solutions" and not just processing services.

The top 500 list is completely irrelevant. What's more relevant is how many top 500 or top 1,000 or top 10,000 companies use Windows. It's also about how many top companies also use Azure and/or AWS or Google cloud. Heck, it's also about how many people use Windows and Azure, vs "simple" Linux on desktops.

Linux is nice and even I use it, but rarely, because, I can do everything I need via Windows and/or the cloud.

Whether you like my statements or not, Linux still years behind Windows and Azure and AWS and Google cloud. Linux alone is not a method to as many answers that are now provided by Windows and/or Azure and/or AWS and/or Google cloud and/or other cloud providers.

Linux might be behind a lot of remote servers; but a Linux stand alone cloud service is still being developed, and might be years behind the others.

With cloud services becoming available for just about everything one used to do on PCs and on local servers, even Windows and Linux and MacOS and other local OSes, may become obsolete. What the local OSes will have to become, is simple "clients" handling screens and local printers and other local connected machines. Processing and file handling and SQL/NoSQL will all be done remotely, on the cloud services.

So, how does Linux stack up against the Azure or against AWS or Google cloud or IBM cloud or any other "Everything as a service" provider?

Everything as a Service: Cloud providers solve problems in-house IT can't and do it more quickly and for less money

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/everything-as-a-service-cloud-providers-solve-problems-in-house-it-cant-and-do-it-more-quickly-and/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=27279734986876924655271145382857