The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Microsoft is Just Cheating
Desktops and laptops have long been the sole area where Windows could dominate (owing to rogue play, not technical merit), but Microsoft now has less than 70% of that "market". In Mail (MX) Servers Microsoft has less than 0.2% of "the market" and Azure seems like a zombie (Microsoft almost stopped talking about it; it now talks of "hey hi" instead of "clown computing"). Putting aside some phony controversy (Asahi brigading the manager), many people and sites now talk about Linux running in a PDF file (after DoomPDF and Pdftris). Watch who's accomplishing this.
A lot of today's young hackers are not interested in Windows, not just because it's "uncool" but because it's a bloated mess with technical debt going back to the 90s if not 80s.
The future and the present are Linux. But the OEMs are signing secret deals with Microsoft. Desktops and laptops get shipped with Windows to prevent choice and impose NSA back doors on billions of people worldwide. █