I mean it's sort of been over for Microsoft for a long time now, though to many non-IT folks it may not be so apparent.

I remember when 90% of web servers were IIS. And MS Exchange was every corporate email server, running on the 90% of servers that were Windows Server. And every laptop was a domain-joined Windows NT Toshiba or Dell.

Now even Microsoft runs their web services on Linux servers. No dev who is not forced to at gunpoint uses a Windows laptop. You'd be hard-pressed to find an SRE or DevOps hire who could confidently explain how to stand up and manage containers on a Windows Server host. And they'd probably walk out of the interview if you even mention Powershell or WMI.

The article is a bit late to the game, because Linux already won.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/server-os-market-share-windows-vs-linux-vs-bsd/

Windows is an annoying reality but is it the source of all our problems? I'm not sure... Europe has already made initiatives to switch and that is their perogative to stop reliance on American or Asian tech. The only thing is that they can't focus long enough to make it happen, in the latest phase Denmark has already opted out from the switch to open source (AFAIK) That really is the main barrier since most people don't care about it even though Microsoft is full of witches and clandestine randomness

Their first mention of Bazzite should link to the project website, but actually links to another unrelated article of theirs. They linked correctly shortly after, though.

Yes. Microsoft is shit. They're too big and the people making decisions there are too removed from shared reality. Fuck them. Split it up. Give it to the workers. Bury the owners in lead containers with warnings.

Linux is fine.