Still, tablets are mostly used for entertainment while laptops are most used for work. Even then, the people writing things rarely use the tablet alone, usually going with a cover with a keyboard (making it a laptop running iOS or Android).
To be fair, how much of it is the form factor and physical keyboard, rather than the actual capabilities of a general-purpose OS (which I assume is what is implied when talking about relevance of laptops/desktops)?
I bet a lot of these people would be served just fine by a Chromebook or iOS-like experience.
Given that Chromebooks are always on sale on German electronic stores until finally someone takes them away, I doubt it. They are pretty much an US phenomenon.
In any case, a flagship Chromebook running Crostini is hardly any different from GNU/Linux laptop, other than the fact that GNU/Linux is running on its own container.
