Yes, but most people, in my experience, do not want to learn about computers. They just want to use them. The article seems to perpetuate the myth that computerz meanz Windowz - well, of course they were talking to Microsoft. I don't know how computing is taught in schools nowadays, or even if it is taught; perhaps pupils are only shown what use they can make of PCs. Like cars: I don't know how mine works (nowadays).
As to linux: it's better, we know that, don't we, after struggling through T155? but linux's main problem is that there are so many flavours of it. Its glory, too, of course, but it does make it difficult to teach; one would have to standardise, to choose, and that would probably mean Ubuntu.... Oh dear.
I have a fanciful vision of Windows as a linear progression (ever more expensive) with lots of little linuxes dancing around it like butterflies - well, it is rather late at night. I fear that for linux to achieve the popularity of Windows, it would have to become just another Windows. Beware of what you wish for ....