A little aside, I've been using Linux as primary workstation for seven years now. It works great, so I've never understood this "year of the desktop" meme.
Now, OpenBSD is another matter entirely...
Now, OpenBSD is another matter entirely...
Two decades later Microsoft is doing quite well and Linux still accounts for a small percent of personal computers.
I certainly consider my phone to be a personal computer nowadays.
It has a few orders or magnitude more powerful hardware and can do things my first few PCs could not do.
Linux is certainly doing very well there. ;) GNU/Linux might not be, but that's a different story.