Your "only" is funny. That is by far the biggest computing market worldwide.
Had Microsoft known better, and Linux would never taken off on PC.
Paying for software was never an issue back then, piracy was quite common, you could get whatever you wanted on the countries where street bazaars are a common thing.
Check the list, make your order, come around the following week.
I was using VM systems running on PCS from 1989 (OS/2) Linux only started in 1991 and did not take off for say 10 years, by then Windows NT existed.
So VM was necessary for Linux but was not the reason for it taking off.
In my experience Linux came in for servers replacing other Unix servers. Windows NT servers continued for some time.
As for desktop you still need Excel and to a lesser extent Word and these are still best on Windows.
Linux only took off during the dotcom days as IBM, Oracle and Compaq started adopting it into commercial workloads, back in 2000.
Visual Studio Code isn't in the same ballpark as Visual Studio. It was already an Azure project, as the Monaco editor, and it was a way to kill Atom.
ARM is only successful on mobile devices and Apple hardware.
If you mean ARM on server, the most successful company, Ampere, is largely owned by Oracle, and there are some ongoing discussions about a full acquisition.