Will Windows NT die?

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I was wondering: Mac are getting cheaper, GNU Linux is almost perfect. (I just hope the rm -r will be managed as in MacOS where they explain you what you are damning do ).

I mean, Windows is getting more and more expencive and getting more and more expencive Office and getting less and less crackable... now, Windows is known for suck.

Proton and Wine make it useless, many stuffs are getting forked for them too and Adobe is working better in MacOS and you can use Steam and Proton for gaming.

Will it survive?

Since Windows now comes bundled with spyware it seems likely that it's ubiquity has peaked.

I don't know. The world isn't much like me when it comes to choosing operating systems and the devices that run them. I was happy with a desktop running Win98se, but have been forced into using XP, 7, and now (gradually) 10. I'm always very reluctant to change over because it always involves my circumventing all the extra spyware, forced updates, and "look-and-feel" changes, and that's a lot of work, before I can even start to use a new OS for serious work. The only reason I change OS at all is that the Web forces me into it - for example, Firefox is poised to end support for 32-bit browsing. As for mobile phones, I'm still waiting for something as good as the old Samsung dumphone I used to use back in 2010. It was useful occasionally, so as an occasional user I would use pay-as-you-go, topped up via more or less any ATM. Since the hardware died I've not been able to find anything that comes close to it. Smartphone? It'd take me a month of Sundays to circumvent all the invasive crap out of that, if it can be done at all, and then there's the money - a lot more than my old Samsung just for the hardware, and probably the only way to use it would be via an extortionate pay-per-month plan that would effectively punish me for not using it very often.

So if everybody was like me, consumer resistance would have killed every Microsoft initiative from Windows 7 up, and cheap but effective pay-as-you-go dumbphones would be selling like hot cakes. But I doubt the average user is bothered by any of the issues that bother me. They seem to have more money than sense, though at least they've got a device in their pocket that can get them out of trouble when they get stranded while travelling etc. I haven't, and one of these days it'll be the death of me. All because of my quaint preference for honest goods.

I like Linux. I use Linux. I'm not a big techy, I've tried a few debian based distros and fiddled with Manjaro a bit. I've settled on Mint which I have on my laptop and an old iMac, and my home server runs Ubuntu server.

But I still can't see Linux replacing Windows, any time soon.

Most home users just don't have the inclination to learn how to use it, then learn how to troubleshoot the problems you inevitably run into with it.

I can see it becoming more popular in enterprise level businesses with their own IT teams and bespoke software. But most SMEs who rely on external support and commercial software aren't going to bother. They're certainly not going to mess around trying to get Office running with WINE.

I just think Linux is, and probably always will be, too fragmented, too exclusive and too finickity for the average computer user to ever bother with.

The point is: modern Linux is 100% noob friendly