Will Linux remain the backbone of computing in the next decade?

This is a very reasonable take here. Presuming no sudden and dramatic paradigm shifts in hardware or OS design, Linux will likely remain at the forefront. The unexpected things are unexpected. The following spitballing fun takes are in no way solid and useful predictions: (1) An AI is far enough along that it writes its own OS in binary, bootstrapping itself. It's no longer recognizable as an OS in the traditional definition. (2) Something like quantum computing makes a breakthrough that is both cheap and effective, allowing it to be the CPU (as opposed to a peripheral) in some hitherto unexpected way. (3) Microsoft gets hit by an antitrust bat so hard that they open source Windows and suddenly there's Windows distros targeting the server space. (4) Someone passes a law (such as the proposed law in Colorado where government age verification is built into the OS at the OS level) which makes Linux untenable in jurisdictions implementing this requirement. (5) A major political controversy (Hans Reiser levels) hits the kernel core development and somehow makes it completely fracture and halt, and no single fork gains enough traction. (6) WW3 fractures the global community and "digital sovereignty" style exercises make a globally used open source OS no longer tenable for security purposes. Regional development teams make their own kernels and core libs and such, with the stated goal of incompatibility. (7) Minux based CPU microcode takes over the roll of kernel and linux becomes entirely userspace ;) Okay, I'm spent ;)