Developers, HPC, and hyperscalers have vast amounts of money to fund these investments, and are overall a relatively few number of companies. They did not come

Developers, HPC, and hyperscalers have vast amounts of money to fund these investments, and are overall a relatively few number of companies. They did not come for free; Linux only supports those systems as well as it does due to decades of investment from the top players in those fields, and that investment created inertia and cost savings to appear. Sorry, but it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how resources are allocated to think anyone (who wasn't named Sun) was "forced" into accepting Linux as some superior option, rather than seeing the writing on the wall that Linux was going to dominate purely by virtue of its cheapness and the ability to hire for it (case in point, many people adopted Linux despite its objectively inferior storage solutions for many years until recently). Linux isn't a person, it can't choose anything. But people will choose Linux if a widget that was $1.50 is now $.50, and they can pocket the $1. Completely different scenarios. The idea "Gamers" can do almost anything other than start shitfits online is some weird "individual responsibility" pipedream. "Gamers" can't even stop major studios from getting shuttered after giving them tons of money (successful sales for games) and at high praise. The problem is structural, not one individual consumer choices are going to fix.