I don’t think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it’s definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we’ll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.
This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.