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This is the only answer, and anybody who doesn't agree just doesn't understand users. They just use whatever you give them.
.. and by implication, it guarantees that Linux will (almost definitely) never be the world's desktop. Mainly because there's no one single company to blackmail.
Astra Linux will be Russia's main desktop if this war continues for another 4 or 5 years. China UOS (Deepin) will be China's main desktop by 2030 or so if the USA keeps up with the trade war. Lots of countries will adopt Deepin if it's cheaper and just as stable. Linux will never be the main desktop in the West but we'll see non US allied countries become Linux countries in the next 20 years.
I would really love a 'standard' Linux. Mint, Puppy, Fedora and so on are good enough.
I 'pray' every night for a killer Windows upgrade bug, but I think only Apple would benefit. Teens seem to have only iPhones as a status thing.