You are pretty much right, GNU/Linux as mass market desktop has lost its opportunity.
ChromeOS market share is irrelevant outside North America, just check the worldwide market share in your favourite source.
Only Android/Linux has really taken off and even there we still don't know what are Google's plans regarding Fuchsia. It might pretty well be that some future Android version will get a new kernel, announced at Google IO.
It is now quite common to attend Linux conferences just to watch the presenters using macOS with a Linux distribution running either on a local or remote VM.
Assuming WSL keeps improving, it wouldn't surprise me to see similar sessions being done from a W10 laptop.
I agree that ChromeOS is largely irrelevant but IME, GNU/Linux is more popular than ever on the desktop. The other operating systems in common use are all terrible in their own ways, and users are increasingly aware that Linux may be a meaningful alternative depending on their needs.
If by more popular than ever, you mean a bigger market share than on the beginning of the century, yes that is quite true.
However since we are talking about graphics acceleration, not that much looking at the Steam community numbers, or the posts from a couple of game studios a couple of weeks back.
ChromeOS market share is irrelevant outside North America, just check the worldwide market share in your favourite source.
Only Android/Linux has really taken off and even there we still don't know what are Google's plans regarding Fuchsia. It might pretty well be that some future Android version will get a new kernel, announced at Google IO.
It is now quite common to attend Linux conferences just to watch the presenters using macOS with a Linux distribution running either on a local or remote VM.
Assuming WSL keeps improving, it wouldn't surprise me to see similar sessions being done from a W10 laptop.