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Best guess is slow growth that eventually plateaus around maybe the 10% mark if we're lucky.
People are slaves to comfort, and ultimately that is what Microsoft and Apple are trying to sell. They want something that idiots can't break, and they know the best way to do that is lock down the OS so much that you're hardly able to interact with it at all. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people fundamentally unwilling to expend the very, very small modicum of brainpower necessary to use Linux these days, and I just don't think there's any chance of reaching them.