I think so. It's certainly stopped being a joke; you can take various news items as "the year of Linux" seriously at this point.

I think this is more of a Microsoft has dropped the ball, than Linux exceling.

I switched to Linux because Windows Filesystem was too unreliable with OneDrive hijacking it. (Also Cortana, auto open edge links, ads/ragebait news in the start menu)

But I needed something reliable, and Microsoft is no longer reliable.

It already happened, nicely packaged inside of a VM, running on top of Hyper-V and Virtualization framework.