I am not very skilled in economics but i feel like software scales really well, so the supply costs should be more flat. And maybe even negative. Meaning that the producer surplus will actually be a lot larger than the heuristic example here. Meaning that Gates has robbed us even more.
I actually have not had issues with Linux. I used ubuntu on lenovo for years.
Only when trying to install cuda compiler on Ubuntu with my desktop.
Buy now I am wiser: bazzite KDE with nvidia GPU is amazing. Use flatpacks for everything (maybe snap for things like IntelliJ) and if you have to, then use homebrew.
I used to run Ubuntu, but i am totally hooked on the immutable thing that they are doing.