2020 or thereabouts was the year of the linux desktop. steamos came out which meant there was a lot of labor put into getting a proper compatibility layer for gaming. DEs were good enough by that point that your grandparents could use them. plus i heard they finally got the graphical installer mostly working, i think. meanwhile microsoft has been over-enshittifying their product with the assumption they have the same captive audience they had in 2008. i just don't think that's true anymore

sorry if this just restates the article i didn't read it

The year of Linux has been basically every year since 2003. Virtually every server runs on some form of Linux and with containerization, even the Windows servers are secretly running a bunch of Linux machines though a hypervisor.

The year of the Linux desktop is the one that's a bit of a meme. X11 has been dragged kicking and screaming into to 21st century, but the general consensus now seems to be it's time to take it out back and shoot it. Wayland is quickly becoming the new standard.

It will legitimately become easier to develop desktop applications on Linux once this all becomes standardized. The reason so many companies target Windows is because Microsoft has a ton of proprietary but managed apis for building desktop apps. Ones that are not compatible with X11.