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In the server world, yes. The desktop is the place that needs to be won over.
The desktop is dying.
I think the desktop is evolving, and may one day become effectively irrelevant, But there is still a long way to go before local compute goes away, which means a local OS is still needed.
WSL is sufficient for many Windows users and developers without privacy concerns motivating them to switch to a full Linux distro.