Nowadays everyone is screaming about everything. Gaming, drivers, privacy; Its almost like simpleton things like word processors aren't important for computer sales anymore! Well obiously they aren't, but at one point that was why you bought a computer. You bought it to do office crap on and you really didn't think much about it past that. In the 80's and even the 90's the point of getting a computer was to get some form of tool for the office. If you could afford one, it was probably a packard bell (in the US it was more common (shut the fuck up fouquin)), it probably wasn't very powerful, and if you had an interest in games it wasn't going to be a big big thing for your price range until the pentiums came out. But these weird people who obsess about computers? What? You mean my folding typewriter has a fanbase? WTF???!?!? Nonsense! Get a job! These magic machines come from space!
Not everyone thought about computers. Even now its a slim few. But I get the funny feeling that people who are into linux are the same as people who were into computers. Its very much a secondary thing, not even one that people take all that seriously, but its everywhere right? (You can apply that to computers or to linux lol)
Where I see Linux going, eventually, is that Windows will be abandoned by microsoft and something stupid called "Glass" or some dumb crap like that will come out. Older versions of windows will go on LTS and some support team will keep windows 10 going for a while while the new mobile division that imitates apple crops up. In that time more people who care about their boxes will realize that linux is a thing and will just have to figure it out, just like they did with computers in general. Games will be a thing that comes with that, as will be apps and whatever hardware. Companies will grab it, everything will just fall in a nice little neat line for everything just like before.
I dunno, I just saw a similarity and found it funny.