> I just can't see any user wanting to use or switch to either Linux or BSD to sanely 'use' their computer for being productive in their daily work other than programming in vim or emacs; because they are still desktops for programmers.

Do you mean for native Windows or macOs dev? Then I agree. However if you are a non tech user I don't agree. I know many people (friends and family), who use Linux on their Notebook or PCs (quite frankly most non-tech users use mobile anyway) and they have no I idea what emacs or vim is (and why should they?).

So Linux being just for dev users is just not true, at least in my experience.