Now that you mention it, they're pretty well positioned to make a compelling alternative to the nightmare that is Windows while giving the Appleverse some competition too.
Imagine a BlueBox running RedHat. Built like tanks, which is in their wheel house, and competes with Apple. Great kernel support for all the carefully curated hardware...
Maybe open GPFS while they're at it.
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop really could be more than a meme.