This seems backwards to me. Linux is in a lot of ways more appealing to gamers than ever (proton/wine/etc is amazing), with the only thing really holding back being anticheat solutions that block Linux. But for the normie market the problems are the same as they've ever been - libreoffice is a poor MS office substitute, despite one million AI clones the Adobe suite and similar software remains table stakes, even the normie-friendly distros have the occasional arcane terminal-based fixes to jump through, and (the biggest obstacle of all) it has no mindshare and isn't preinstalled on computers that normies buy.

> all that's left for them will be gamers

Tim Sweeny being "one of the people who dooms Windows" was the least likely thing on my multiverse bingo card - but he's eroding that too. EAC v2 will have kernel mode (eBPF) anti-cheat. Microsoft has lost their moat at the throne of AI.