The vast majority of people interact with workstations every day? I don't think the vast majority of people have office jobs on earth, but I won't belabor the point.

Those people that use a computer at work are using windows, or in rare cases, macs. Linux is almost non existent because the work ecosystem isn't there, and likely wont be there because of office suites and other tooling.

No one uses Office applications on their local machines anymore.

Hilarious. Guess I'll let the thousands of people I work with who I know use Office via an app know they dont exist.

Matter of fact, a large majority of all work is done in the browser. Computers have, for a long time, been glorified Facebook machines. Look at how many people use Chrome OS that doesn't even support any local software at all...

Yeah to facebook machines, which is why most people don't have PCs anymore when phones will do. The above doesnt apply to buisnesses, and im honestly baffled that you think it does.

Most businesses have Windows apps that are used all day every day, generally numbering in the hundreds or thousands depending on the scope of the enterprise.

Since they will stick on Windows because of this, and there are no more home pcs out there outside the gamer/nerds/granniss, the rapid Linux gain will drop off again, and that's okay. The Linux eco system is vibrant, accessible and interesting. That's enough.