Anecdote only.

A lot of people in my circles recently got fed up with Windows breaking everything. They went from teasing about Linux, to installing it.

... And then the kernel fully embraced genAI.

The same people went, "No thanks." Saw NetBSD's AI stance, and started installing it.

Granted, tech people. But not that deep into things. Most are scared of the command line - but find they don't need it.