@pumeco 

Windows is not going anywhere, for a long time. Yes Linux has slowly gotten more percentage, but the gain has been no where near as fast as many people like yourself predicted. 

Way back when Windows Me was a complete disaster, many Linux buffs predicted market saturation would be over 50% on desktops in a few years, and it is not.

Same thing happened at Vista, and it didn't happen then either.

The increase that has been seen lately (about 10%) is from systems like the Chromebook. and get what you pay for.

Very few mainstream programs will run on it, which is understandable since it is still considered a work in progress. Even by Google.

Microsoft was slow to take action, but have since released similarly priced stripped down notebooks that will run most programs that customers already have. Once that happened the gap stopped changing in Google's favor and is actually starting to go back the other way again.. People are familiar with Windows, and have many programs that will run on it. Windows 8.1 has more reverse compatibility then 7 did, which adds even more software that will run to the mix.

One of the biggest hurdles Linux has, is the consumer. And the average person is not going to put up with Linux as soon as they can no longer do what they did with Windows.

Try to play a DirectX11 game in Linux... Yes you can get it to work, 5 years after the Linux people announced it would. Guess what, Windows 10 uses DirectX12... Your 5 years behind with Linux, again....

Try to install your favorite Windows program in Linux, if there isn't a Wine wrapper for it, it wont work. Yes there are free alternatives that run fine in Linux, but it will be set up completely differently and require someone to relearn a program to do what is second nature in Windows. Most people don't want to spend weeks learning a new software when they have one they already know.

The best chance to disrupt Windows reign, is not with the current Linux. It will have to have huge advantages over what everyone has now, and presently Linux does not.

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