you're not entitled to an open platform. if the market determines one is not worthy, then it's not worthy. don't like it? start contributing to open source projects

that said, we've never been closer to Linux on the Desktop (TM) than we are right now, even if it's through dumb stuff like Omarchy. There's no risk today that you won't be able to, in 10 years, buy an x86 or ARM laptop and put some flavor of Linux on it for personal use