> I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

Or to enable customers to migrate away bit-by-bit because cold turkey is hard.

I personally am running linux full-time on my personal machines, but I wouldn't have ever made the switch had I not been able to run linux in a VM for a few weeks and then dual boot for a few years and then run windows in a VM for another few years. If people back in the early 2000s had your mindset I'd probably be running a mix of windows and mac today.