The big push was going to come when the steam machine hit but that's dead in the water for at least 5 years. Ordinarily somebody would step in and make more memory but because we don't enforce antitrust law nobody can take that risk because you know that if you try one of the big memory manufacturers is just going to drop their prices and run you out of business.

It's possible that America becoming a basket case will force Europe to switch to Linux. But there's going to be a lot of money thrown at Europe

With some minor exceptions, gaming was the only thing keeping me on Windows. Steam broke this blockade. I still keep a Windows laptop that I use in the spring to run Turbotax.

There is some Chinese numbers that seem to appear then disappear on alternating months. And those numbers seem to be strongly Wintel sided.