Direct marketing doesn't seem like a very good method to attract people.
Linux needs to do one thing to make it a viable option: Make steam and all windows based steam games work out of the box.
Linux needs to do one thing to win the consumer market: Make all steam games work better than on windows out of the box.
If linux can do that, they can win a market that is not the server market. If Linux cannot do that, then people are trapped on Windows for the foreseeable future.
That is the "did we solve your problem. y/n?" of the desktop environment. It is the only question that matters. I don't see the purpose in marketing Linux for non server purposes until that hurdle has been jumped.
Linux needs to do one thing to make it a viable option: Make steam and all windows based steam games work out of the box.
Linux needs to do one thing to win the consumer market: Make all steam games work better than on windows out of the box.
If linux can do that, they can win a market that is not the server market. If Linux cannot do that, then people are trapped on Windows for the foreseeable future.
That is the "did we solve your problem. y/n?" of the desktop environment. It is the only question that matters. I don't see the purpose in marketing Linux for non server purposes until that hurdle has been jumped.