The whole desktop computing idea for "most people" isn't really going to have a revival. There are specific niches within desktop computing (business people run

The whole desktop computing idea for "most people" isn't really going to have a revival. There are specific niches within desktop computing (business people running excel, software developers running shells/IDEs/editors, gamers, home users, graphics designers, scientists, etc etc) and these niches seem to have very little in common. The "non-gamer home user" is all but dead. That's not a niche that will go anywhere, and if they use a linux-y OS it's not going to be anything other than ChromeOS. Linux has made strides recently in several of these niches, most notably perhaps software developers are using Linux more, and in graphics/video we see people doing more Blender and perhaps not waiting for the next workstation Macs. The biggest one in the bunch by far is regular business users doing word processing, spread sheets, SharePoint, video calls, emails. I no longer think desktop linux (in the traditional sense, i.e. Gnome/KDE) will take any chunk of this, within coming decades. If anything, the whole concept of desktop will be abstracted away into a thin client in some cloud where your same programs and documents are available no matter your device. But one thing is 100% clear: for 99% of business users, that client will connect to a Microsoft service, nothing else.