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PC Shipments Return To Growth In the US (theverge.com)
PC shipments are seeing a welcome growth in the United States. The industry, which has seen a continual decline in the sales in the past few consecutive quarters, is now seemingly gaining some momentum in the United States, according to independent findings by marketing research firms IDC and Gartner. According to IDC, the PC shipments have increased by 4.9%, whereas Gartner says it has observed a 1.4% growth. From a report on The Verge: The estimates differ because Gartner does not count Chromebooks as part of its figures, while IDC cites Google's laptops as a key reason for US growth. [...] Worldwide, PC shipments are still on a decline. Gartner estimates a 5.2 percent drop, and IDC calculates around a 4.5 percent decrease in shipments. Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade comes to an end on July 29th, and IDC believes it may prompt some PC users into buying new machines. Gartner also forecasts a Windows 10 hardware refresh for businesses, that it expects to see "more toward the end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017."
Business, tech-oriented people, the self-employed, creatives, and so on will continue to buy full-fledged computing hardware and to upgrade it over time,
You bet it, bro. I still have 2007 desktop systems running Linux like a charm, still kicking the asses of many a shiny iCraps and laptops [which are not real computers for me]. I plan to upgrade them some time into the 2020's.
So you think Macs are not "real computers", eh?
From what I can tell, your shiny Linux is eqiuvalent to about 3 or 4 of the blocks in this OS X/macOS Architecture diagram. Oh, and OS X/macOS is a Certified UNIX. Linux is just a UNIX wanna-be.