For me, anything that runs Linux is a yes. Anything that does not run Linux, is a no. I won’t use anything non-Linux for computational purposes. If it’s better hardware-wise, it won’t matter to me.
You're a niche. But if linux fixes the 10^10^10^10 different distros problem and gets an awesome desktop environment that large companies can confidently program against knowing that all linux users will be covered, then everything else will pretty much disappear overnight.
I ran Ubuntu desktop as a server with NVIDIA GPUs, that sits next to my desk. I access it with my MacBook Pro, mostly through PyCharm or CLion remote runtimes, so nothing runs on my Mac. The latency is single ms, so you don’t feel it at all. I get the benefits of nice Mac UI and standard Linux server runtimes for both Python and C++.
Valve might end up becoming the biggest impact on desktop Linux and putting it over the edge if Windows keeps on refusing to remove. its. old. UI.