Comment by tsoukase

I cannot fathom why a SW developer ever needs to use Windows at least the last ten years. Do you work for MS? Use Linux and spin up a pass-through VM in your favourite supervisor.

The decline of Windows will cause a huge power vacuum that Linux distributions can in no way cover. Who will support the huge swaths of tech non-savy average Joe and Brenda users (mostly device drivers, games, Office) that sometime will need to open the command terminal? May be a new future trillion-$ company will come with a new proprietary desktop OS, possibly based on Linux, like android.