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Thanks for bringing your personal experience on the matter. I will try to comment on a couple of things.
Even though it's the government who is mainly pushing this change, and not the general public, I think it's a good thing. Since those machines just use a browser, this is one more reason to move to Linux, because there will be few migration issues. This makes your government less dependent on foreign corporations. I'm from Brazil, and I know how painful it is to see the govern spending millions on software licenses, when we're in need of so many things. We had a similar government program about 20 years ago, but unfortunately, it didn't go well.
On most people not using desktops, this is the way things are going back to, just like in the beginning of computing, when computers were professional machines. People who don't need it for work won't bother getting one, for the same reason most houses don't have professional tools.
I think the market share growth is still relevant, and this will create some positive impact in your country in the long run, if they don't stop the incentive.