What will happen to the traditional desktop?

I've been using Windows 8 RTM now for some weeks and to be honest I am very frustrated. It just does not cut it on the desktop.

I'm an author of two commercial desktop applications and, of course, thinking to make "metro/win8" versions of them. It will be hard and it will feel stupid because of the limitations in functionality what one can do.

I could just keep developing traditional desktop stuff and ignore win8 ui, but then...if traditional desktop apps are dying what's the point of keep developing them.

Or I could just go and switch to Linux (To be honest I really want to and probably will, I don't need to make living out of the applications, so I dont have to worry how many licences I sell and so on)

So fellow hackers, any advice for me? Opinions? What do you think about Windows 8?