Clearly, AI will play a larger role in Linux and open source next year, but that's true of pretty much all technology. However, while AI will be used to help develop the Linux kernel , no one is predicting, a la Windows, that AI will be used to rewrite the entire codebase by 2030 . That said, open source will remain at the heart of AI. For Linux, I see more desktop distributions aimed at ex Windows users . As a result, the Linux desktop, which has already been growing faster than...