Let's branch into another universe where everything is exactly the same as this one, except Linux (in the same state it's in now) is 90% of the PC market. But how can such a world exist except by ignoring the reasons that exist in our universe why Linux is not the OS for 90% of the PC market.
It's not a sensible "if". If Linux was forced onto 90% of computers early on, it would have been forced to be a lot more stable, backwards compatible and rigid than it is now. The webcams would work but the OS wouldn't be the Linux you know today.
Let's branch into another universe where everything is exactly the same as this one, except Linux (in the same state it's in now) is 90% of the PC market. But how can such a world exist except by ignoring the reasons that exist in our universe why Linux is not the OS for 90% of the PC market.
It's not a sensible "if". If Linux was forced onto 90% of computers early on, it would have been forced to be a lot more stable, backwards compatible and rigid than it is now. The webcams would work but the OS wouldn't be the Linux you know today.